Prognostic value of vascular endothelial growth factor expression in gastric carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 858-863

  Maeda, Kiyoshi ^a   Chung, Yong Suk ^a   Ogawa, Yoshinari ^a   Takatsuka, Satoshi ^a   Kang, Soon Myoung ^a   Ogawa, Masafumi ^a   Sawada, Tetsuji ^a   Sowa, Michio ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

gastric carcinoma; hepatic recurrence; metastasis; prognosis; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0030066037     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960301)77:5<858::AID-CNCR8>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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