Perivascular mast cells in advanced gastric adenocarcinomas: An electron microscopic study

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2257-2263

  Caruso, Rosario Alberto ^a   Ieni, A ^a   Fabiano, V ^a   Basile, G ^a   Inferrera, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced gastric carcinoma; Angiogenesis; Dispersed fibrous long spacing collagen; Electron microscopy; Mast cells; Microvasculature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MAST CELL; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4444312900     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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