Vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptor correlate with angiogenesis and survival in pulmonary adenocarcinoma

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4 A, 1997, Pages 2811-2814

  Takanami, Iwao ^a   Tanaka, Fumihiko ^a   Hashizume, Toshinori ^b   Kodaira, Susumu ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kanagawa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flt; Immunostaining; Prognostic indicator; Pulmonary adenocarcinoma; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0030756796     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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