Prognostic significance of microvascularization in cases of operated lung cancer

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1106-1111

  Szöke, Tamas ^a   Kayser, Klaus ^b   Baumhäkel, Jan Dirk ^b   Trojan, Imre ^a   Furak, Jozsef ^a   Tiszlavicz, Laszlo ^c   Eller, Jozsef ^c   Boda, Krisztina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Lung cancer; Survival; Syntactic structure analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CELL DENSITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STAINING; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 19344366516     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.01.036     Document Type: Article

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