Tumor vascularization and prognosis in squamous cell carcinomas of the esophagus

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4 A, 1996, Pages 2117-2121

  Sarbia, Mario ^a   Bittinger, Fernando ^b   Porschen, Rainer ^c   Dutkowski, Philipp ^b   Willers, Reinhart ^a   Gabbert, Helmut E ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Esophagus; Microvessel density; Prognosis; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029738840     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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