Diagnostic and prognostic value of nucleolar organizer regions in normal epithelium, dysplasia, and squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity
✍ Scribed by Xin Xie; Ole Petter Fraas Clausen; Jon Sudbö; Morten Boysen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 277 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
dysplasia, and 8 specimens with normal epithelium were evaluated by 2 AgNOR counting methods: 1) the mean number of AgNORs per nucleus (mAgNOR) and
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