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Cytological examination of pleural cavity lavage accompanied by the study of gene promoter hypermethylation of p16 and O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase genes in diagnostics of non-small cell lung cancer metastatic changes into pleura

AIM OF THE STUDY: Metastases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) into pleura disqualify a patient from surgery and present a bad prognostic index. The aim of the study was to find out whether washing out the pleural cavity in such cases and examining obtained washings for presence of cancer cells...

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Autores principales: Kaczmarczyk, Grzegorz, Lewandowski, Roman, Trautsolt, Wanda, Ziółkowski, Adam, Kozielski, Jerzy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3687432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23788902
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/wo.2012.30061