A growth model for primary cancer

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 261, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 569-580

  Ferreira Jr , S C ^a   Martins, M L ^a   Vilela, M J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer; Growth phenomena; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; GROWTH KINETICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CARCINOMA; CELL GROWTH; FRACTAL DIMENSION; GYRATION RADIUS; TUMOUR PERIPHERY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0348201774     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(98)00318-5     Document Type: Article

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