Vascular endothelial growth factor expression is an independent negative predictor in extrahepatic biliary tract carcinomas

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3 B, 1999, Pages 2257-2260

  Hida, Yasuhiro ^a   Morita, Takayuki ^b   Fujita, Miyoshi ^b   Miyasaka, Yuji ^b   Horita, Shoichi ^b   Fujioka, Yasunori ^a   Nagashima, Kazuo ^a   Katoh, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hokkaido Gastroenterology Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extrahepatic biliary tract carcinoma; Immunohistochemistry; Prognostic factor; VEGF

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032774271     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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