Clinical implication of expression of vascular endothelial growth factor-C in metastatic lymph nodes of uterine cervical cancers

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 466-469

  Fujimoto, J ^a   Toyoki, H ^a   Sato, E ^a   Sakaguchi, H ^a   Tamaya, T ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metastatic lymph node; Prognosis; Uterine cervical cancer; VEGF C

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C;

EID: 4143145525     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601963     Document Type: Article

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