DNA Ploidy in Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Comparison of Flow and Image Cytometry with Clinical Follow-Up in 93 Patients

Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-24

  Dreinhöfer, Karsten E ^a,b   Baldetorp, Bo ^b   Åkerman, Måns ^b   Fernö, Mårten ^b   Rydholm, Anders ^b   Gustafson, Pelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DNA; Flow cytometry; Image cytometry; Prognosis; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PLOIDY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ADOLESCENT; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLOIDIES; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0346329762     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.10034     Document Type: Article

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