Growth patterns of diffuse non-Hodgkin's lymphomas estimated from mitotic and apoptotic indices

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 178-183

  Spina, Donatella ^a   Leoncini, Lorenzo ^a   Megha, Tiziana ^a   Galiorini, Marcella ^a   Tosi, Piero ^a   Pileri, Stefano ^b   Kraft, Rainer ^c   Laissue, Jean A ^c   Cottier, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MITOSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOPTOSIS; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 0030817098     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19971009)73:2<178::AID-IJC2>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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