Serum levels of basic fibroblast growth factor reflect disseminated disease in patients with testicular germ cell tumors

Urological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 390-393

  Bentas, Wassilios ^a   Beecken, Wolf Dietrich ^a   Glienke, Wolfgang ^a   Binder, Jochen ^a   Schuldes, Horst ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Angiogenic factors; Testicular germ cell tumor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR AB; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED CANCER; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SEMINOMA; SERUM; TERATOCARCINOMA; TERATOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0037294708     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-002-0288-8     Document Type: Article

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