Relationship between microvessel density and thermographic hot areas in breast cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 243-248

  Yahara, Toshiro ^a   Koga, Toshihiro ^a   Yoshida, Shougo ^a   Nakagawa, Shino ^a   Deguchi, Hiroko ^a   Shirouzo, Kazuo ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; MIB 1 labeling index; Microvessel density; Thermography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABELING INDEX; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037880675     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300055     Document Type: Article

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