Angiogenic activity of cervical carcinoma: Assessment by functional magnetic resonance imaging-based parameters and a histomorphological approach in correlation with disease outcome

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2305-2312

  Hawighorst, Hans ^a   Weikel, Wolfgang ^b   Knapstein, Paul G ^b   Knopp, Michael V ^a   Zuna, Ivan ^a   Schönberg, Stefan O ^a   Vaupel, Peter ^b   Van Kaick, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULATURE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031723118     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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