Liver metastases from colorectal adenocarcinomas grow in three patterns with different angiogenesis and desmoplasia

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 336-342

  Vermeulen, Peter B ^a   Colpaert, Cecile ^a   Salgado, Roberto ^a   Royers, Ruben ^a   Hellemans, Hilde ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Eva ^a   Goovaerts, Gerda ^a   Dirix, Luc Y ^a   Van Marck, Eric ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cell proliferation; Colorectal adenocarcinoma; Growth patterns; Liver metastasis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; PARAFFIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DENSITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; HYPOXIA; IMMATURITY; INTESTINE MUSCLE; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER SINUSOID; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PERICYTE; PREDICTION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ACTINS; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTIGENS, CD34; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0034782184     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.966     Document Type: Article

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