Clinical significance of K-ras mutations in intraoperative tumor drainage blood from patients with colorectal carcinoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 407-412

  Etoh, Tsuyoshi ^a,c   Ueo, Hiroaki ^b   Inoue, Hiroshi ^a   Sato, Hiroshi ^a   Utsunomiya, Tohru ^a   Barnard, Graham F ^c   Kitano, Seigo ^c   Mori, Masaki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Oita Prefectural Government   (Japan)

^c University of Massachusetts Medical School ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal carcinoma; Drainage blood; K ras mutation; MACS system; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; METASTASIS; ONCOGENE K RAS; PREDICTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD45; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034994745     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/aso.2001.8.5.407     Document Type: Article

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