Circulating micrometastases of esophageal cancer detected by carcinoembryonic antigen mRNA reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction: Clinical implications

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 690-696

  Hashimoto, Takashi ^a   Kajiyama, Y ^a   Tsutsumi ishii, Y ^a   Nagaoka, I ^a   Tsurumaru, M ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CEA mRNA; Micrometastasis; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER CELL; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MICROMETASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 56349164761     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2008.00830.x     Document Type: Article

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