Vascular endothelial growth factor in squamous cell head and neck carcinoma: Expression and prognostic significance

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1128-1133

  Salven, Petri ^a   Heikkilä, Päivi ^b   Anttonen, Anu ^a   Kajanti, Mikael ^a   Joensuu, Heikki ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Head and neck carcinoma; Prognosis; Vascular endothelial growth factor; Vascular permeability factor; VEGF; VPF

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL COUNT; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0030664484     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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