Digital image analysis of silver-stained nucleolar organizer region- associated proteins in endometrial cytologic samples

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-53

  Mahovlić, Vesna ^a   Audy Jurković, Silvana ^a   Ovanin Rakić, Ana ^a   Bilušić, Marijo ^a   Veldić, Marin ^a   Babić, Damir ^a   Božikov, Jadranka ^a   Danilović, Žarko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Image analysis, computer assisted; Nucleolus organizer region

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CHROMOSOME NOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 0033052335     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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