Do angiogenesis and growth factor expression predict prognosis of esophageal cancer?

American Surgeon

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 401-406

  Millikan, Keith W ^a,b   Mall, Julian W ^a   Myers, Jonathan A ^a   Hollinger, Edward F ^a   Doolas, Alexander ^a   Saclarides, Theodore J ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CARCINOMA; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0034085410     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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