Clinicopathological significance of epidermal growth factor and its receptor in human pancreatic cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5 B, 1997, Pages 3841-3847

  Uegaki, Ken ^a   Nio, Yoshinori ^a   Inoue, Yasushi ^a   Minari, Yoshimitsu ^a   Sato, Yoshitoshi ^a   Song, Mao Min ^a   Dong, Min ^a   Tamura, Katsuhiro ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

EGF; EGF receptor; Growth factor; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 0031452314     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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