Importance of thymidine phosphorylase expression at the invasive front of T3 rectal cancer as a prognostic factor

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 331-335

  Yoshimoto, Kazuhisa ^a   Kawahara, Hidejiro ^a   Kobayashi, Susumu ^a   Kashiwagi, Hideyuki ^a   Hirai, Katsuya ^a   Yanaga, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Rectal cancer; Thymidine phosphorylase; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECTUM CANCER; STROMA CELL; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 33847072695     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097896     Document Type: Article

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