Thymidine labeling index in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma in correlation with pTNM, age, histological grade and recurrence

ORL

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 257-262

  Ünal, Murat ^a,c   Bilir, Ayhan ^b   Karatay, Mesut Can ^b  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MERSIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma; Prognostic factors; Thymidine labeling index

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABELING INDEX; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX SURGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYMIDINE;

EID: 0036380438     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000064135     Document Type: Article

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