An image analysis study on nuclear morphology in metastasized and non- metastasized squamous cell carcinomas of the tongue

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-183

  Hannen, Egied J M ^a,b   Van Der Laak, Jeroen A W M ^a   Manni, Johannes J ^c   Pahlplatz, Martin M M ^a   Freihofer, Hans Peter M ^a   Slootweg, Piet J ^b   Koole, Ronald ^b   De Wilde, Peter C M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Image processing; Metastasis; Morphometry; Neoplasm; Nucleus; Staging; Tongue

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KARYOMETRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KARYOMETRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031812376     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199806)185:2<175::AID-PATH69>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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