Development of a nuclear morphometric signature for prostate cancer risk in negative biopsies.

Our objective was to develop and validate a multi-feature nuclear score based on image analysis of direct DNA staining, and to test its association with field effects and subsequent detection of prostate cancer (PCa) in benign biopsies.Tissue sections from 39 prostatectomies were Feulgen-stained and...

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Main Authors: Peter H Gann, Ryan Deaton, Anup Amatya, Mahesh Mohnani, Erika Enk Rueter, Yirong Yang, Viju Ananthanarayanan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3724855?pdf=render