Clustering of murine lung metastases reflects fractal nonuniformity in regional lung blood flow

Invasion and Metastasis

Volumn 18, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 285-296

  Kendal, Wayne S ^a  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fractal clusters; Metastasis, experimental; Metastasis, spontaneous; Regional blood flow

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0032463832     PISSN: 02511789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000024521     Document Type: Article

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