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Correlation between mast cells and survival rates in patients with pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Nov 1999
Tomita M, Matsuzaki Y, Onitsuka T
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BACKGROUND: A retrospective study on the correlation between mast cells and survival rates of 90 pulmonary adenocarcinoma patients is reported. METHODS: Surgical specimens were stained with alcian blue and safranin O, and parenchymal mast cells were counted. Based on the counts, the patients were divided into two groups: Group A had mast cell counts of > 20/microscopic field; Group B, < 20. TNM staging and...
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