Ploidy determination in prostatic adenocarcinoma using thin histological sections: A more sensitive way of detecting aneuploid tumor clones

Prostate

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-35

  Mairinger, Thomas ^a   Gschwendtner, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

DNA ploidy; Prostatic adenocarcinoma; Tissue section measurements

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; TISSUE SECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANEUPLOIDY; DNA, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 0031880157     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(19980915)37:1<30::AID-PROS5>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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