Prognostic significance of angiogenesis in rectal cancer: A morphometric investigation

Anticancer Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6 B, 2001, Pages 4341-4348

  Sökmen, Selman ^a   Sarioǧlu, Sülen ^a   Füzün, Mehmet ^a   Terzi, Cem ^a   Küpelioǧlu, Ali ^a   Aslan, Belgin ^a  

^a NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Morphometry; Prognostic factor; Rectal cancer; Tumor angiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; STEREOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035574611     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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