Vascular endothelial growth factor and lymph node metastasis in primary lung cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1041-1045

  Ohta, Y ^a   Watanabe, Y ^a   Murakami, S ^a   Oda, M ^a   Hayashi, Y ^a   Nonomura, A ^a   Endo, Y ^a   Sasaki, T ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Lymph node metastasis; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030769701     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1997.505     Document Type: Article

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