Angiogenesis in Colorectal Tumors: Microvessel Quantitation in Adenomas and Carcinomas with Clinicopathological Correlations

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 21, 1995, Pages 5049-5053

  Bossi, Paola ^a   Coggi, Guido ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^b,c   Alfano, RosaMaria ^d   Lee, Arthur K C ^e,f   Bosari, Silvano ^g  

^a Pathology Department   (Italy)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL DENSITY; COLON MUCOSA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROVASCULATURE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RECTUM MUCOSA; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028785734     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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