Representativity of incisional biopsies for the assessment of flow cytometric DNA content in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-109

  Hemmer, Joerg ^a   Kraft, Klaus ^b   Polackova, Jitka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Military Hospital Ulm   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biopsy; DNA content; Flow cytometry; Head and neck neoplasms; Oral carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; DIPLOIDY; DNA CONTENT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK CANCER; PLOIDY; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031956063     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0344-0338(98)80077-0     Document Type: Article

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