Increased Expression of Sialyl Lewisx Antigen Correlates with Poor Survival in Patients with Colorectal Carcinoma: Clinicopathological and Immunohistochemical Study

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 1993, Pages 3632-3637

  Irimura, Tatsuro ^c   Kameyama, Masao ^a   Imaoka, Shingi ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a   Sasaki, Yo ^a   Kabuto, Toshiyuki ^a   Iwanaga, Takeshi ^a  

^a CENTER FOR ADULT DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP LEWIS SYSTEM; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD15; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0027250266     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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