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Detection of disseminated tumour cells in the liver of colorectal cancer patients.
European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology - 1 Feb 2005
Conzelmann M, Linnemann U, Berger M R
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AIMS: The aim of this study was to assess the incidence and lobar distribution of three surrogate tumour cell markers in biopsies from both liver lobes. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study comprised 189 patients for whom DNA and/or RNA was available from both liver lobes and who showed at least one positive marker in one liver lobe. Detection of cytokeratin 20 (CK20) and guanylylcyclase C (GCC) was performed by...
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