Cancer Letters
Volume 203, Issue 2 , Pages 181-190 , January 2004

Prognostic significance of microsatellite instability in curatively resected adenocarcinoma of the small intestine

  • Wolfgang M Brueckl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Ulmenweg 18, Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49-9131-85-39300; fax: +49-9131-85-35062
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Elvira Heinze

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Ulmenweg 18, Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Catrin Milsmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Georg-August-University Göttingen, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Axel Wein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Ulmenweg 18, Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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  • Corinna Koebnick

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, German Institute of Human Nutrition, D-14558 Bergholz-Rehbrücke, Germany
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  • Andreas Jung

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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  • Roland S Croner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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  • Thomas Brabletz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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  • Klaus Günther

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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  • Thomas Kirchner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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  • Eckhart G Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Ulmenweg 18, Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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  • Werner Hohenberger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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  • Heinz Becker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Georg-August-University Göttingen, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany
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  • Bertram Reingruber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany

Received 5 August 2003 ,Revised 17 August 2003 ,Accepted 19 August 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2003.08.013

Cancer Letters
Volume 203, Issue 2 , Pages 181-190 , January 2004

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