Elevated serum vascular endothelial growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor levels in patients with thymic epithelial neoplasms

Surgery Today

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1038-1040

  Sasaki, Hidefumi ^a   Yukiue, Haruhiro ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Nakashima, Yoshiaki ^a   Moriyama, Satoru ^a   Kaji, Masahiro ^a   Kiriyama, Masanobu ^a   Fukai, Ichiro ^a   Yamakawa, Yosuke ^a   Fujii, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basic fibroblast growth factor; Thymic carcinoma; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MIDDLE AGED; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0035212194     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950170021     Document Type: Article

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