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1995 • 950 citations

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1993 • 795 citations

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1996 • 441 citations

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1995 • 343 citations

Comparative analysis of bone marrow and venous blood isolates from gastrointestinal cancer patients for the detection of disseminated tumor cells using reverse transcription PCR.

1997 • 224 citations

Further experience with laparoscopy and peritoneal cytology in the staging of pancreatic cancer

1995 • 171 citations

The detection of disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow from colorectal-cancer patients by a cytokeratin-20-specific nested reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain reaction is related to the stage of disease

1996 • 160 citations

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2000 • 140 citations

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1998 • 115 citations

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2001 • 95 citations

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1999 • 86 citations

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2002 • 75 citations

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1997 • 74 citations

Micrometastases in Bone Marrow: Prognostic Indicators for Pancreatic Cancer

1999 • 61 citations

Characterization of cytokeratin 20 expression in pancreatic and colorectal cancer.

1999 • 56 citations

Prognostic Implications of Routine, Immunohistochemical, and Molecular Staging in Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

2002 • 52 citations

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1998 • 49 citations

Improved methods using the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction to detect tumour cells

1999 • 47 citations

Detection of pancreatic and gastric cancer cells in peripheral and portal blood by amplification of keratin 19 mRNA with reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

1997 • 42 citations

Prognostic Value of Cytologic Examination of Peritoneal Washings in Pancreatic Cancer

2002 • 41 citations

Detection of Mutant K-ras in Dissected Paraaortic Lymph Nodes of Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

1997 • 40 citations

Pancreatic lymph nodal and plexus micrometastases detected by enriched polymerase chain reaction and nonradioisotopic single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis: a new predictive factor for recurrent pancreatic carcinoma.

1997 • 39 citations

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1996 • 31 citations

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1992 • 31 citations

Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Detection of Nodal Micrometastases in Pancreatic Cancer

2001 • 24 citations

Implication of Micrometastases of Lymph Nodes in Patients With Extended Operation for Pancreatic Cancer

2003 • 20 citations

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2001 • 19 citations

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2001 • 17 citations