Color Doppler vascularity index can predict distant metastasis and survival in colon cancer patients

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2892-2897

  Chen, Chiung Nien ^a   Cheng, Yung Ming ^a   Liang, Jin Tung ^a   Lee, Po Huang ^a   Hsieh, Fon Jou ^a   Yuan, Ray Hwang ^a   Wang, Shih Ming ^a   Chang, Mei Fang ^a   Chang, King Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034214365     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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