Silver-stained nucleolar organizer regions in adenocarcinoma of the cervix - A light and electron microscopic study

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 275-281

  Yokoyama, Yasuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Yuichiro ^a   Serda, Dilbaz ^a   Morishita, Shigeo ^a   Hashimoto, Midori ^a   Shimokawa, Kuniyasu ^a   Tamaya, Teruhiko ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma of the cervix; Electron microscopy; Nuclear bodies; Nucleolar organizer regions; Nucleolus

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABELING INDEX; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEOLUS; SILVER STAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0030827297     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0344-0338(97)80004-0     Document Type: Article

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