Vascular endothelial growth factor is a marker of tumor invasion and metastasis in squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 775-782

  Sauter, Edward R ^a   Nesbit, Mark ^a   Watson, James C ^b   Klein Szanto, Andres ^b   Litwin, Samuel ^b   Herlyn, Meenhard ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EPITHELIUM; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOKINES; MICE; MICE, SCID; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

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