The back door: Venous-mediated metastasis into cervical lymph nodes as an alternative metastatic pathway for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

Modern Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 683-688

  Ivanov, K ^a   Som, P ^a   Wolf, R ^a   Misilim, K ^a   Li, S P ^a   Urken, M L ^a   Zhang, D ^a   Brandwein, M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD44; High endothelial venules; Homing; Lymph node; Metastasis; Stamper Woodruff assay

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; HERMES ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VENULE;

ANTIGENS, CD44; CELL ADHESION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VEINS;

EID: 0032840581     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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