D-dimer - Can it be a marker for malignant gastric lesions? [2]

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 770-771

  Aliustaoglu, Mehmet ^a   Yumuk, Perran Fulden ^b,e   Gumus, Mahmut ^c   Ekenel, Meltem ^b   Bolukbas, Fusun ^d   Bolukbas, Cengiz ^a   Mutlu, Nilgun ^b   Basaran, Gul ^b   Avsar, Erol ^d   Turhal, Nazim S ^b  

^a HAYDARPASA NUMUNE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c Kartal Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^d Division of Gastroenterology   (Turkey)

^e Caddebostan   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 19944426289     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860410002743     Document Type: Letter

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