Prognostic significance of tumor angiogenesis in primary fallopian tube cancer

Cancer Letters

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 179-186

  Bancher Todesca, Dagmar ^a   Rosen, Alexander ^b   Graf, Anton ^c   Wasicky, Richard ^a   Hohlagschwandtner, Maria ^a   Rebhandl, Winfried ^d   Heinze, Georg ^e   Breitenecker, Gerhard ^d   Gitsch, Gerald ^f   Obermair, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b DANUBE HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c St Johanns Spital   (Austria)

^d University Hospitals AKH 1090   (Austria)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; CD34; Microvessel count; Primary fallopian tube cancer; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; UTERINE TUBE CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FALLOPIAN TUBE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0033052352     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(99)00104-4     Document Type: Article

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