Microvessel morphology and vascular endothelial growth factor expression in human colonic carcinoma with or without metastasis

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 555-562

  Tsuji, Tsuyotoshi ^a   Sasaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Tanaka, Masanori ^a   Hanabata, Norihiro ^a   Hada, Ryukichi ^a   Munakata, Akihiro ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; CELL COUNT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0036091659     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3780450     Document Type: Article

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