The presence of scatter factor in patients with metastatic spread to the pleura.

Pleural effusion fluid obtained from eleven patients with metastatic spread to the pleura was screened for the ability to cause the dispersal--'scattering'--of MDCK colonies in vitro. Four of these samples proved to be positive using this assay. Of these two had titres high enough to warra...

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Main Authors: Kenworthy, P., Dowrick, P., Baillie-Johnson, H., McCann, B., Tsubouchi, H., Arakaki, N., Daikuhara, Y., Warn, R. M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 1992
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1977819/