Analysis of gastric tubular adenoma and carcinoma cells microdissected from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded sections of gastric biopsies. Early lesions are small and detectable only with a microscope. Results indicate that routinely processed biopsy specimens may be useful in expression profiling.
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