Detection of Disseminated Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Cells inCervical Lymph Nodes by Cytokeratin 20 Reverse Transcription-PolymeraseChain Reaction
✍ Scribed by Theresia Weber; Kerstin Amann; Helgard Weckauf; Jeannine Lacroix; Jürgen Weitz; Tanja Schönfuss; Thomas Hölting; Ernst Klar; Christian Herfarth; Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz
- Book ID
- 105977947
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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