Relationship between microlymphatic vessel density within tumors and lymph node metastasis

Oncology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 889-892

  Ohta, Yasuhiko ^a   Tanaka, Motohiro ^a   Endo, Yoshio ^a   Murakami, Shinya ^a   Oda, Makoto ^a   Sasaki, Takuma ^a   Watanabe, Yoh ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymph node metastasis; Lymphatic vessel density; Lymphogenesis

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0030797485     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.4.5.889     Document Type: Article

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