Genetic detection of lymph node micrometastases in patients with colorectal cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 98-100

  Dorudi, S ^a   Kinrade, E ^a   Marshall, N C ^a   Feakins, R ^a   Williams, N S ^a   Bustin, S A ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031963241     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.02872.x     Document Type: Article

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