Clinicopathological significance of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C in human esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 662-666

  Kitadai, Yasuhiko ^a   Amioka, Toru ^a   Haruma, Ken ^a   Tanaka, Shinji ^a   Yoshihara, Masaharu ^a   Sumii, Koji ^a   Matsutani, Norimasa ^a   Yasui, Wataru ^a   Chayama, Kazuaki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Esophageal carcinoma; Lymph node metastasis; VEGF C

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-3;

EID: 0035452475     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.1379     Document Type: Article

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