Lymphatic vessel density and lymph node metastasis in prostate cancer

Prostate

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 222-230

  Zeng, Yiping ^a,b   Opeskin, Kenneth ^b,c   Horvath, Lisa G ^d,e   Sutherland, Robert L ^e   Williams, Elizabeth D ^a,b,f  

^a Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; D2 40 ANTIGEN; PODOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD34; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-3;

EID: 26644458339     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pros.20288     Document Type: Article

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