Influence of microvessel density and vascular permeability factor/vascular endothelial growth factor expression on prognosis in vulvar cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 204-209

  Obermair, Andreas ^a   Kohlberger, Petra ^a   Bancher Todesca, Dagmar ^a   Tempfer, Clemens ^a   Sliutz, Gerhard ^a   Leodolter, Sepp ^a   Reinthaller, Alexander ^a   Kainz, Christian ^a   Breitenecker, Gerhard ^a   Gitsch, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VULVA CANCER;

EID: 0030298098     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1996.0307     Document Type: Article

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