Extent of tumor vascularization correlates with prognosis and hematogenous metastasis in gastric carcinomas

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2671-2676

  Tanigawa, Nobuhiko ^a   Amaya, Hirokazu ^a   Matsumura, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Shimomatsuya, Takumi ^a   Horiuchi, Tetsuya ^a   Muraoka, Ryusuke ^a   Iki, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MICROVASCULATURE; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD34; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0029892750     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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