Clinical implication of expression of platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (PD-ECGF) in metastatic lesions of uterine cervical cancers

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3041-3044

  Fujimoto, Jiro ^a   Sakaguchi, Hideki ^a   Hirose, Reiko ^a   Wen, Hongwu ^a   Tamaya, Teruhiko ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033168416     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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