Glomeruloid Microvascular Proliferation Is Superior to Intratumoral Microvessel Density as a Prognostic Marker in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 6791-6794

  Tanaka, Fumihiro ^a   Oyanagi, Hiroki ^a   Takenaka, Kazumasa ^a   Ishikawa, Shinya ^a   Yanagihara, Kazuhiro ^a   Miyahara, Ryo ^a   Kawano, Yozo ^a   Li, Mio ^a   Otake, Yosuke ^b   Wada, Hiromi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Seishin Iryo Center Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; CD34 ANTIGEN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GLOMERULOID MICROVASCULAR PROLIFERATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0142157674     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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