The use of FTA cards for preserving unfixed cytological material for high-throughput molecular analysis

Cancer Cytopathology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 206-214

  Saieg, Mauro Ajaj ^a   Geddie, William R ^a   Boerner, Scott L ^a   Liu, Ni ^b   Tsao, Ming ^a,b   Zhang, Tong ^a   Kamel Reid, Suzanne ^a   Da Cunha Santos, Gilda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytopathology; DNA mutational analysis; Fine needle biopsy; FTA card; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CARD11 GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE K RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84865138741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19346638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncy.20205     Document Type: Article

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