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In the light-microscopic examination of melanoma metastases with heavily damaged tumor cells after isolated cytostatic perfusion it is often difficult to decide whether the therapy has completely destroyed all tumor cells or has only partly affected them. It must be assumed that viable tumor cells resistant to therapy may be the source of repeated tumor growth, i.e., relapse of further spreading of tumor cells.
The authors are grateful to Dr. S. Syed Ali, at the Center of Anatomy and Cytobiology for assistance in ultrastructural studies, and to Mrs. G. Thiele, at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, for skilled technical assistance. We are indebted to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. A. Oksche and Prof. Dr. R. Lange, at the Center of Anatomy and Cytobiology, for the provision of a work place
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Paul, E., Ishii, M., Aigner, K., Hild, P., Illig, L. (1983). Fluorescence-Histochemical and Electron-Microscopical Investigations in Melanoma Patients After Isolated Cytostatic Perfusion. In: Schwemmle, K., Aigner, K. (eds) Vascular Perfusion in Cancer Therapy. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82025-0_41
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