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Immunocytochemical detection and phenotypic characterization of micrometastatic tumour cells in bone marrow of patients with prostate cancer.
Urological research - 1 Jan 1994
Oberneder R, Riesenberg R, Kriegmair M, Bitzer U, Klammert R, Schneede P, Hofstetter A, Riethmüller G, Pantel K
Abstract excerpt
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for cytokeratins are potent probes for the identification of disseminated individual epithelial tumour cells in mesenchymal organs such as bone marrow. We have used a monoclonal antibody (mAB) against cytokeratin 18 (CK18) for the detection of individual metastatic tumour cells in bone marrow aspirates from 84 patients with carcinoma of the prostate. CK18+ cells were detected...
Topics
- Bone Marrow Diseases
- Bone Neoplasms
- Carcinoma
- Cells, Cultured
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Keratins
- Male
- Phenotype
- Prostate-Specific Antigen
- Prostatic Neoplasms
