Early detection of peritoneal dissemination of gastrointestinal cancers by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Oncology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1015-1019

  Fujimura, Takashi ^a   Yonemura, Yutaka ^a   Ninomiya, Itasu ^a   Miwa, Koichi ^a   Miyazaki, Itsuo ^a   Endo, Yoshio ^a   Ishikawa, Noboru ^a   Obata, Tohru ^a   Tanaka, Motohiro ^a   Sasaki, Takuma ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

E cadherin; Gastrointestinal cancer; Peritoneal dissemination; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030737748     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.4.5.1015     Document Type: Article

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