Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of thymidine phosphorylase expression in gastric carcinoma

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5 C, 1999, Pages 4363-4367

  Ogawa, Kenji ^a   Konno, So Ichi ^b   Takebayashi, Yuji ^b   Miura, Kazuhiro ^b   Katsube, Takao ^b   Kajiwara, Tetsuro ^b   Aiba, Motohiko ^b   Aikou, Takashi ^b   Akiyama, Shin Ichi ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; Prognostic factor; Thymidine phosphorylase

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

EID: 0033428329     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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