Detection of circulating tumour cells and nodal metastasis by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction technique

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 834-839

  Wong, L S ^a,c   Cantrill, J E ^b   Odogwu, S ^a   Morris, A G ^b   Fraser, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERMES ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD44; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031010554     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800840630     Document Type: Article

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