Identification of superior markers for polymerase chain reaction detection of breast cancer metastases in sentinel lymph nodes

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 4581-4584

  Min, C Justus ^a   Tafra, Lorraine ^b   Verbanac, Kathryn M ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DNA; MAMMAGLOBIN; RNA; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTEROGLOBIN;

EID: 0032532390     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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