Vascular endothelial growth factor, hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor, basic fibroblast growth factor, and placenta growth factor in human meningiomas and their relation to angiogenesis and malignancy

Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 938-948

  Lamszus, Katrin ^a   Lengler, Ulrike ^a   Schmidt, Nils Ole ^a   Stavrou, Dimitrios ^a   Ergün, Süleyman ^a   Westphal, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Brain tumor; Growth factor; Meningioma

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CHEMOTAXIS; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENINGIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0034077964     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200004000-00033     Document Type: Article

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