The prognostic importance of volume-weighted mean nuclear volume, mitotic index, and other stereologically measured quantitative parameters in supraglottic laryngeal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2222-2228

  Bentzen, Jens Knud Daugård ^a   Hansen, Hanne Sand ^b   Nielsen, Henrik Winther ^c  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mean nuclear volume; Prognostic factors supraglottic laryngeal carcinoma; Radiotherapy; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOSIS INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STEREOMETRY;

AGED; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033429045     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19991201)86:11<2222::AID-CNCR8>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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