Lymphatic vessel density in vocal cord carcinomas assessed with LYVE-1 receptor expression

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 172-175

  Koskinen, Walter J ^a,b   Bono, Petri ^b   Leivo, Ilmo ^b   Vaheri, Antti ^a   Aaltonen, Leena Maija ^b   Joensuu, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Lymphatic vessel; LYVE 1

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; LYMPHATIC VESSEL ENDOTHELIAL HYALURONAN RECEPTOR 1; MARKER; PARAFFIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 27944477252     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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