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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
Abstract excerpt
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 clonality of advanced epithelial carcinoma. Tumor samples of both ovaries, and/or omentum, and/or peritoneum from nine...
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