Intratumoral blood flow analysis in endometrial cancer: Does it differ among individual tumor characteristics?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 341-344

  Hata, Kohkichi ^a   Hata, Toshiyuki ^a   Kitao, Manabu ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0029950563     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1996.0153     Document Type: Article

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