title: Clinical importance and prognostic value of the image-DNA-cytometry for patients with gastric cancer.
abstract: Image-DNA-cytometric analysis was performed retrospectively on air-dried touch preparations from gastric carcinoma from 122 patients who underwent surgery from 1989-1994. The results of DNA cytometry were compared with conventional histologic staging and grading. Aneuploidy could be verified in 81 cases (66.3%), and a significant correlation was demonstrated between aneuploidy and a high incidence of lymph node metastases, whereas no correlation with tumor type and histologic grade was detected. Thus DNA ploidy may by useful in predicting prognosis in gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stratmann
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Decker
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirner
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bollmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019044:Image Cytometry / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm