Angiogenesis in glioblastoma - Analysis of intensity and relations to chosen clinical data

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-21

  Izycka Świeszewska, Ewa ^a   Rzepko, Robert ^a   Borowska Lehman, Jolanta ^a   Stempniewicz, Mirosław ^a   Sidorowicz, Magdalena ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Glioblastoma; Microvascular proliferation; Vascular density

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CANCER SIZE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLOMERULUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0038701975     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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