Detection of micrometastases in histologically negative lymph nodes in esophageal cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1715-1718

  Luketich, James D ^a,b   Kassis, Edmund S ^a   Shriver, Sharon P ^a   Nguyen, Ninh T ^a   Schauer, Philip R ^a   Weigel, Tracey L ^a   Yousem, Samuel A ^a   Siegfried, Jill M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PUH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032441914     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00944-8     Document Type: Article

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