Prognostic value of angiogenesis in mammary tumors

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3 C, 1998, Pages 2199-2202

  Goede, Valentin ^a   Fleckenstein, Georg ^a   Dietrich, Margret ^a   Osmers, Rüdiger G W ^a   Kuhn, Walther ^a   Augustin, Hellmut G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Mammary tumors; Vessel density counts

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0031864871     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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