Tumor vascularity correlates with the prognosis of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 220-225

  Tanigawa, Nobuhiko ^a   Matsumura, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Amaya, Hirokazu ^a   Kitaoka, Akihiro ^a   Shimomatsuya, Takumi ^a   Lu, Caide ^a   Muraoka, Ryusuke ^a   Tanaka, Takeo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b FUKUI PREFECTURAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD34; esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; prognostic indicator; tumor angiogenesis; von Willebrand factor

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0031014494     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970115)79:2<220::AID-CNCR4>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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