Fractal dimension as a quantitator of the microvasculature of normal and adenomatous pituitary tissue

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 211, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 673-680

  di Leva, Antonio ^a   Grizzi, Fabio ^a   Ceva Grimaldi, Giorgia ^a   Russo, Carlo ^a   Gaetani, Paolo ^a   Aimar, Enrico ^a   Levi, Daniel ^a   Pisano, Patrizia ^a   Tancioni, Flavio ^a   Nicola, Giancarlo ^a   Tschabitscher, Manfred ^b   Dioguardi, Nicola ^a   Rodriguez y Baena, Riccardo ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fractal geometry; Microvasculature; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary gland; Surface fractal dimension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANTIGENS, CD34; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35448979044     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00804.x     Document Type: Article

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