Advanced ovarian carcinoma: molecular evidence of unifocal origin.

doi:10.1006/gyno.1993.1240

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Advanced ovarian carcinoma: molecular evidence of unifocal origin.

Gynecologic oncology - 1 Oct 1993

Li S, Han H, Resnik E, Carcangiu M L, Schwartz P E, Yang-Feng T L

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The clonal origin has sometimes been disputed in advanced epithelial cancers when multiple sites of peritoneal tumors were present because of the developmental similarity of the surface epithelium of the ovary and the peritoneal mesothelium. We have taken two independent approaches to study the c...

Topics

Adult
Aged
Alleles
Chromosome Deletion
Cystadenocarcinoma, Papillary
DNA
Dosage Compensation, Genetic
Female
Heterozygote
Humans
Methylation
Middle Aged
Ovarian Neoplasms

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