Microvessel density at presentation predicts subsequent muscle invasion in superficial bladder cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2583-2586

  Goddard, Jonathan C ^a,b   Sutton, Christopher D ^a   Furness, Peter N ^a   O'Byrne, Kenneth J ^a   Kockelbergh, Roger C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENSITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE METASTASIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERFICIAL CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLES; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037817365     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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