Angiogenesis in cervical neoplasia: Microvessel quantitation in precancerous lesions and invasive carcinomas with clinicopathological correlations

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-33

  Dellas, Athanassios ^a   Moch, Holger ^a   Schultheiss, Elisabeth ^a   Feichter, Georg ^a   Almendral, Alfonso C ^a   Gudat, Fred ^a   Torhorst, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU;

EID: 0031260289     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1997.4835     Document Type: Article

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