Detection of squamous-cell carcinoma antigen-expressing tumour cells in blood by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction in cancer of the uterine cervix

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-80

  Stenman, Jakob ^a   Lintula, Susanna ^a   Hotakainen, Kristina ^a   Vartiainen, Juhani ^a   Lehväslaiho, Heikki ^b   Stenman, Ulf Håkan ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERPINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030981033     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970220)74:1<75::AID-IJC13>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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