Expression of thrombomodulin in squamous cell carcinoma of the lung: Its relationship to lymph node metastasis and prognosis of the patients

Cancer Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 95-103

  Ogawa, Hiroki ^a   Yonezawa, Suguru ^a   Maruyama, Ikuro ^a   Matsushita, Yoshifumi ^a   Tezuka, Yoshihisa ^a   Toyoyama, Hironobu ^a   Yanagi, Masakazu ^a   Matsumoto, Hidehiko ^a   Nishijima, Hiroo ^a   Shimotakahara, Teturo ^a   Aikou, Takashi ^a   Sato, Eiichi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lymph node metastasis; Prognosis of the patients; Squamous cell carcinoma; Thrombomodulin

Indexed keywords

THROMBOMODULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCORING SYSTEM; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOMODULIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033984451     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(99)00348-1     Document Type: Article

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