Detection of breast cancer micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes by means of reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction: Comparison between MUC1 mRNA and keratin 19 mRNA amplification

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 649-656

  Noguchi, Shinzaburo ^a   Aihara, Tomohiko ^a   Motomura, Kazuyoshi ^a   Inaji, Hideo ^a   Imaoka, Shingi ^a   Koyama, Hiroki ^a  

^a CENTER FOR ADULT DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AXILLA; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATINS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030063823     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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