Elevated plasma basic fibroblast growth factor in brain tumor patients

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 865-869

  Kurimoto, Masanori ^a,b   Endo, Shunro ^a   Hirashima, Yutaka ^a   Nishijima, Michiharu ^a   Takaku, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

basic fibroblast growth factor; brain tumor; immunoassay; tumor marker

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0030460008     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.865     Document Type: Article

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