Lymph node revealing solution in gastric carcinoma does not provide upstaging of the N-status

Oncology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 361-365

  Luebke, Thomas ^a   Baldus, Stephan E ^a   Zirbes, Thomas K ^a   Pham, Thai D C ^a   Schneider, Paul M ^a   Dienes, Hans P ^a   Hölscher, Arnulf H ^a   Mönig, Stefan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Immunostaining; Lymph node revealing solution; Lymph node staging

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; ETHER; FORMALDEHYDE; KERATIN; LYMPH NODE REVEALING SOLUTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ACETIC ACID; ADENOCARCINOMA; ETHANOL; ETHER, ETHYL; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 16244397403     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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