Color-coded and spectral Doppler flow in breast carcinomas - Relationship with the tumor microvasculature

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-89

  Peters Engl, Christian ^a   Medl, Michael ^a   Mirau, Michael ^a   Wanner, Christian ^b   Bilgi, Selcuk ^c   Sevelda, Paul ^a   Obermair, Andreas ^b  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Blood flow; Breast cancer; Doppler

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0031984399     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005992916193     Document Type: Article

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