Detection of disseminated tumor cells in the lymph nodes of colorectal cancer patients using a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 392, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 559-566

  Lotspeich, Erkki ^a   Schoene, Markus ^a   Gerngroß, Heinz ^a   Schmidt, Roland ^a   Steinmann, Reinhard ^a   Ramadani, Marco ^b   Gansauge, Susanne ^b  

^a BUNDESWEHRKRANKENHAUS ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colorectal carcinoma; Cytokeratin 20; Disseminated tumor cells; Lymph nodes; Quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 20; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATIN-20; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34547843500     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-007-0184-3     Document Type: Article

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