Standardized demonstration of silver-stained nucleolar organizer regions-associated proteins in archival oral squamous cell carcinomas and adjacent non-neoplastic mucosa

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 98-104

  Piffkò, Jòzsef ^a   Bànkfalvi, Àgnes ^a   Öfner, Dietmar ^b   Rasch, Dörte ^a   Joos, Ulrich ^a   Schmid, Kurt W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

AgNOR; oral cancer; oral mucosa; wet autoclave pretreatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOUTH MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILVER STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0343923559     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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