Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of chromosome 12 anomalies in semen cells from patients with carcinoma in situ of the testis

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 235-239

  Meng, Fan Jing ^a,b   Zhou, Yue ^b   Giwercman, Aleksander ^b   Skakkebaek, Niels E ^b   Van Kessel, Ad Geurts ^a   Suijkerbuijk, Ron F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carcinoma in situ; Chromosome 12 anomalies; FISH; Semen; Testis

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOCHROMOSOME; MALE; NUMERICAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; TESTIS CARCINOMA;

ADULT; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTERPHASE; ISOCHROMOSOMES; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METAPHASE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMEN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3643142699     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(1998110)186:3<235::AID-PATH177>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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