Analysis of the DNA content in Bowen's disease.
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- Published online on: March 1, 1998 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.1.3.613
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the DNA content in Bowen's disease in comparison to healthy epidermis applying image cytophotometry. The material investigated was derived from 50 patients with Bowen's disease and 10 patients with healthy skin. For comparison of both groups the Kruskal-Wallis test was applied. Slides were stained with Feulgen and were evaluated with CAS-200 image analyzer. Only 7/50 morbus Bowen cases represented euploid histogram. The others 43/50 were either conspicious to be aneuploid (29/50) or clearly aneuploid (14/50). In contrast, all normal epidermis (10/10) were clearly euploid. Morbus Bowen cases demonstrated significantly higher 5c exceeding rate (p=0.0012) and significantly more cells in the S-phase (p=0.017). High aneuploidy rate and increased proliferative activity in morbus Bowen cases support the classification of these lesion as carcinoma in situ.