Telomerase: A potential marker of bladder transitional cell carcinoma in bladder washes

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 535-538

  Lee, Dong Hyeon ^a,b   Yang, Seung Choul ^b   Hong, Sung Joon ^b   Chung, Byung Ha ^b   Kim, Isaac Yi ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLADDER IRRIGATION; CANCER GRADING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM STAGING; TELOMERASE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031946672     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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