TY - JOUR AU - Cordone, Iole AU - Masi, Serena AU - Summa, Valentina AU - Carosi, Mariantonia AU - Vidiri, Antonello AU - Fabi, Alessandra AU - Pasquale, Alessia AU - Conti, Laura AU - Rosito, Immacolata AU - Carapella, Carmine Maria AU - Villani, Veronica AU - Pace, Andrea PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/11 TI - Overexpression of syndecan-1, MUC-1, and putative stem cell markers in breast cancer leptomeningeal metastasis: a cerebrospinal fluid flow cytometry study JO - Breast Cancer Research SP - 46 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Cancer is a mosaic of tumor cell subpopulations, where only a minority is responsible for disease recurrence and cancer invasiveness. We focused on one of the most aggressive circulating tumor cells (CTCs) which, from the primitive tumor, spreads to the central nervous system (CNS), evaluating the expression of prognostic and putative cancer stem cell markers in breast cancer (BC) leptomeningeal metastasis (LM). SN - 1465-542X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-017-0827-4 DO - 10.1186/s13058-017-0827-4 ID - Cordone2017 ER -