Morphometric microvascular characteristics predict prognosis in superficial and invasive bladder cancer

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 438, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 603-611

  Korkolopoulou, Penelope ^a   Konstantinidou, Anastasia E ^a   Kavantzas, Nikolaos ^a   Patsouris, Efstratios ^a   Pavlopoulos, Petros M ^a   Christodoulou, Panagiota ^a   Thomas Tsagli, Euphemia ^a   Davaris, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Bladder carcinoma; Immunohistochemistry; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034919490     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280100400     Document Type: Article

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