Are 'micrometastases' of the peritoneum equivalent to distant metastases?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 453-458

  Kienle, Peter ^a   Koch, Moritz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Disseminated tumor cells; Gastrointestinal cancer; Micrometastases; Minimal residual disease; Peritoneum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR CELL;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PERITONEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036963759     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067609     Document Type: Article

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