Significance of urinary epidermal growth factor and its receptor expression in human bladder cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2B, 1997, Pages 1293-1296

  Chow, Nan Haw ^a   Liu, Hsiao Sheng ^a   Lee, Eric I C ^a   Chang, Chih Jen ^a   Chan, Shih Huang ^a   Cheng, Hong Lin ^a   Tzai, Tzong Shin ^a   Lin, Johnny Shinn Nan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Epidermal growth factor; Epidermal growth factor receptor; Prognosis; Transitional cell carcinoma; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK; TUMOR VOLUME; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030980531     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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