Characterization of the frequency distribution for human hematogenous metastases: Evidence for clustering and a power variance function

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 219-229

  Kendal, Wayne ^a   Lagerwaard, Frank ^b   Agboola, Olusegun ^a  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical metastases; Exponential dispersion models; Fractal clusters; Power function; Regional blood flow

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; META ANALYSIS; METASTASIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0035065398     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006737100797     Document Type: Article

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