Diagnosis and prognosis of neuroendocrine tumours of the lung by means of high resolution image analysis

Analytical Cellular Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-119

  Jütting, Uta ^a   Gais, Peter ^a   Rodenacker, Karsten ^a   Böhm, Joachim ^b   Koch, Susanne ^a   Präuer, Heinz W ^b   Höfler, Heinz ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carcinoid; DNA distribution; Image analysis; Neuroendocrine lung tumours; Prognosis; Small cell carcinoma; Textural features

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOID; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEULGEN STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0032765877     PISSN: 09218912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1999/695907     Document Type: Article

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