Enrichment methods to detect bone marrow micrometastases in breast carcinoma patients: Clinical relevance

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Choesmel, Valérie ^a   Pierga, Jean Yves ^b   Nos, Claude ^b   Vincent Salomon, Anne ^b   Sigal Zafrani, Brigitte ^b   Thiery, Jean Paul ^a   Blin, Nathalie ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Bone marrow; Breast cancer; Clinical staging; Immunodetection; Micrometastases

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; KERATIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN GA733; TUMOR-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN GA733;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; BONE MARROW CANCER; BONE MARROW CELL; BREAST TUMOR; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 4644281339     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr898     Document Type: Article

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