Soybean agglutinin binding as a useful prognostic indicator in stomach cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 293-297

  Terashima, Shinya ^a   Takano, Yoshinao ^a   Ohori, Takeo ^a   Kanno, Tomoyuki ^a   Kimura, Takuya ^a   Motoki, Ryoichi ^a   Kawaguchi, Takanori ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

lectin histochemistry; soybean agglutinin; stomach cancer

Indexed keywords

SOYBEAN AGGLUTININ;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LECTIN BINDING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LECTINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT LECTINS; PROGNOSIS; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030999210     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00941800     Document Type: Article

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