Detection of Merkel cell virus and correlation with histologic presence of Merkel cell carcinoma in sentinel lymph nodes

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1314-1319

  Loyo, M ^a   Schussel, J ^a   Colantuoni, E ^b   Califano, J ^a   Brait, M ^a   Kang, S ^a   Koch, W M ^a   Sidransky, D ^a   Westra, W H ^a   Taube, J M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Merkel cell carcinoma; Merkel cell polyomavirus; RT PCR; sentinel lymph node; tumour staging

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MICRODISSECTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYOMAVIRUS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84859209327     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2012.73     Document Type: Article

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