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Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

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The catalog of human cytokeratins: Patterns of expression in normal epithelia, tumors and cultured cells

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Tumor Angiogenesis: A New Significant and Independent Prognostic Indicator in Early-Stage Breast Carcinoma

1992 • 1,799 citations

Cytokeratin 20 in human carcinomas. A new histodiagnostic marker detected by monoclonal antibodies.

1992 • 807 citations

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Illegitimate transcription: transcription of any gene in any cell type.

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

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1995 • 208 citations

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1998 • 183 citations

Utilization of polymerase chain reaction technology in the detection of solid tumors

1998 • 181 citations

The detection of breast carcinoma micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes by means of reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

1995 • 166 citations

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1996 • 160 citations

Detection of disseminated tumor cells in peripheral blood of colorectal cancer patients

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Detection of micrometastases in colorectal cancer patients by K19 and K20 reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction.

1996 • 120 citations

Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells in Colorectal Cancer by Immunobead-PCR Is a Sensitive Prognostic Marker for Relapse of Disease

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Angiogenesis in normal tissue adjacent to colon cancer

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Epithelial tumour cell detection and the unsolved problems of nested RT-PCR: a new sensitive one step method without false positive results

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