Mean weighted nuclear volumes in colonic adenocarcinomas: Evaluation of prognostic significance

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 194-200

  Mairinger, Thomas ^b   Happacher, Ruth ^b   Gabl, Christoph ^b   Hoffmann, Yvonne ^b   Öfner, Dietmar ^b   Schmid, Kurt Werner ^b   Gschwendtner, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Colonic neoplasms; Mean weighted nuclear volumes; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEREOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KARYOMETRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0032976588     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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