Quantitative molecular detection of minimal residual head and neck cancer in lymph node aspirates

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 755-761

  Nieuwenhuis, Eline J C ^a   Jaspars, Lies H ^a   Castelijns, Jonas A ^a   Bakker, Branco ^a   Wishaupt, Richard G A ^a   Denkers, Fedor ^a   Leemans, C René ^a   Snow, Gordon B ^a   Brakenhoff, Ruud H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA PRIMERS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037315024     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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