Three-dimensional changes in lymphatic architecture around VX2 tongue cancer - Dynamics of growth of cancer

Lymphology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 128-139

  Seki, Shotaro ^a   Fujimura, A ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TONGUE CANCER;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RABBITS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0041336981     PISSN: 00247766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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