Improving Tumor Cell Detection in Pleural Effusions by Interphase Cytogenetics

Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-62

  Fiegl, Michael ^a   Massoner, Anita ^a   Steurer, Michael ^a   Grünewald, Kurt ^a   Krugmann, Jens ^b   Hack, Rene ^c   Duba, Hans Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c Krankenhaus Natters   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOGENETICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EXUDATE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESOTHELIUM CELL; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1542346383     PISSN: 15524949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.10046     Document Type: Letter

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