Endothelial area as a prognostic indicator for invasive breast carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2077-2085

  Simpson, Jean F ^a,b   Ahn, Chul ^a,c   Battifora, Hector ^a   Esteban, Jose M ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; breast carcinoma; image analysis; prognosis

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029940041     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960515)77:10<2077::AID-CNCR17>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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