The auricular VX2 carcinoma: Feasibility of complete tumor resection

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6 B, 2005, Pages 4209-4214

  Sapundzhiev, Nikolay ^a   Dünne, Anja A ^b   Ramaswamy, Annette ^b   Werner, Jochen A ^b  

^a Queen Jiovanna Hospital   (Bulgaria)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metastases model; Squamous cell carcinoma; Tumor resection; VX2

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AURICULAR VX2 CARCINOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MICROEMBOLISM; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EAR NEOPLASMS; EAR, EXTERNAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RABBITS;

EID: 27944482072     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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