Assessment of tumor angiogenesis in invasive breast carcinomas: Absence of correlation with prognosis and pathological factors

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 437, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 611-617

  Fridman, V ^a   Humblet, C ^a   Bonjean, K ^a   Boniver, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Breast carcinoma; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FACTOR VIII; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034535316     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280000292     Document Type: Article

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