1) Department of Pathology, Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany,
2) Department of Maxillofacial Surgery,
3) Department of Clinical and Experimental Pathomorphology, Jagiellonian University Medical College,
Krakow
Abstract
The ploidy status of 5 recurrent and 7 nonrecurrent basaliomas was investigated using a CAS 200 image analyser. All recurrent basaliomas were aneuploid in contrast to nonrecurrent ones representing the euploid status. The percentage of cells in S phase in recurrent basaliomas was twice as high as in nonrecurrent ones. The authors conclude that aneuploidy in primary tumour can be a warning signal for recurrences and these patients should undergo special control.
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