Detection and quantification of circulating tumor cells in patients with esophageal cancer by real-time polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 455-464

  Ito, H ^a   Kanda, Tatsuo ^a   Nishimaki, T ^a   Sato, H ^a   Nakagawa, S ^a   Hatakeyama, K ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

CEA; CK 20; Esophageal cancer; Micrometastasis; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 20; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORACIC DUCT; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-20; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 8544222803     PISSN: 03929078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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