Heterogeneity in early and advanced gastric carcinomas by flow cytometric DNA analysis.

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Heterogeneity in early and advanced gastric carcinomas by flow cytometric DNA analysis.

Journal of surgical oncology - 1 Feb 1993

Umehara Y, Kimura T, Yoshida M, Oba N, Harada Y

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We investigated 230 systematically sampled fresh specimens from 12 early and 26 advanced gastric cancer patients by DNA flow cytometry for heterogeneity in DNA content. Fifty-eight percent of the 12 early gastric cancers were uniformly diploid and 42% were uniformly aneuploid. Fifty-four percent...

Topics

Aneuploidy
Carcinoma
DNA, Neoplasm
Diploidy
Female
Flow Cytometry
Genotype
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Prognosis
Stomach Neoplasms

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