A correlative study of gliomas using in vivo bromodeoxyuridine labeling index and computer-aided malignancy grading

Pathology and Oncology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 134-141

  Sharma, Suash ^a   Karak, Asis K ^a   Singh, Rajvir ^a   Mehta, V S ^a   Sarkar, Chitra ^a   Schmitt, Horst P ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer aided grading; Gliomas; Histologic grading; In vivo BrdU LI; Malignancy classification

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; LABELING INDEX; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0032791984     PISSN: 12194956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/paor.1999.0189     Document Type: Article

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