The tumour stroma of oral squamous cell carcinomas show increased vascularity compared with adjacent host tissue

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 559-565

  Dunstan, S ^a   Powe, D G ^a   Wilkinson, M ^a   Pearson, J ^a   Hewitt, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Morphometry; Squamous cell cancer; Vascularity

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STROMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0031058646     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1997.98     Document Type: Article

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