Are endothelial cell patterns of astrocytomas indicative of grade?

In Vivo

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 371-375

  Selby, Dena M ^a   Woodard, Christopher A ^b   Henry, Madhu Lakshman ^c   Bernstein, Jerald J ^b,c  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Angiogenesis; Astrocytoma; Brain tumor; Childhood; Tumor grading; Vessels; Von Willebrand factor

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CHILD; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INTIMA; MALE;

EID: 0030831650     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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