Prognostic Significance of Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction?Negative Sentinel Nodes in Malignant Melanoma
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Annals of Surgical Oncology
- Vol. 10 (4) , 396-402
- https://doi.org/10.1245/aso.2003.06.006
Abstract
Background: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a molecular biology technique that can detect a single metastatic cell in 106 to 107normal cells. Its use has been proposed as an additional new method...Keywords
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