Core classification of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas: Correlations between morphology, DNA ploidy and HPV infection

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 206, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 768-771

  Kotb, Waleed F M Amin ^a   Blind, Christiane ^a   Friedrich, Karl Heinz ^b   Schewe, Christiane ^a   Zhang, Zhi Gang ^b   Zheng, Jian Ming ^c   Deutschman, Nicole ^a   Pacyna Gengelbach, Manuela ^a   Dietel, Manfred ^a   Petersen, Iver ^d  

^a Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin Medical Center   (Germany)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Pathology   (China)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA cytometry; Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas; HPV infection; Nuclear morphology

Indexed keywords

DNA; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CELL SUSPENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA CONTENT; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MITOSIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR SIZE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PLOIDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TONSIL CANCER; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS TYPING; WART VIRUS;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, NEOPLASM; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MITOSIS; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PLOIDIES;

EID: 77958465382     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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