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Peritoneal exfoliative cytology and Ki-ras mutational analysis in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Cancer letters - 6 Nov 1995
Rall C J, Rivera J A, Centeno B A, Fernandez-del Castillo C, Rattner D W, Warshaw A L, Rustgi A K
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This is the first description of the detection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma peritoneal metastasis by established radiolabeled polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based Ki-ras mutational analysis. The present study evaluates both routine cytology and Ki-ras mutational analysis in the detection of peritoneal micrometastases in 24 subjects with pancreatic adenocarcinoma compared to seven control cases of chronic...
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