Choice of Methodology for Quantifying Cancer Structures in Tissue Sections: A Comparison of 2- and 3-Dimensional Estimators of Mitotic Activity, Cellularity and Nuclear Size in Breast Cancer

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 97-104

  Ladekarl, Morten ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Morphometry; Objective malignancy grading; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER TISSUE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METHODOLOGY; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; TISSUE SECTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MITOTIC INDEX; NUCLEAR MATRIX; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 1942470917     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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