A morphometric study of neovascularization in colorectal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2067-2075

  Pavlopoulos, Petros M ^a,b   Konstantinidou, Anastasia E ^a   Agapitos, Emmanuel ^a   Kavantzas, Nikolaos ^a   Nikolopoulou, Polyxeni ^a   Davaris, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Colorectal carcinoma; Factor VIII; Microvessel density; Morphometry; Neovascularization

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0032533287     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19981115)83:10<2067::AID-CNCR4>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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