Breast adenocarcinoma liver metastases, in contrast to colorectal cancer liver metastases, display a non-angiogenic growth pattern that preserves the stroma and lacks hypoxia

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1429-1436

  Stessels, F ^a,b   Van Den Eynden, G ^a,b   Van Der Auwera, I ^a,b   Salgado, R ^a,b   Van Den Heuvel, E ^a,b   Harris, A L ^c   Jackson, D G ^c   Colpaert, C G ^a,b   Van Marck, E A ^a,b   Dirix, L Y ^a,b   Vermeulen, P B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b SINT AUGUSTINUS HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Breast cancer; Colorectal cancer; Growth pattern; Hypoxia; Liver metastasis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIC CELL; LIVER CELL MEMBRANE; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAINING; STROMA; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR CELL; VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; CELL HYPOXIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FIBRIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MACROPHAGES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 2342584137     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601727     Document Type: Article

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