Serum concentrations of laminin γ2 fragments in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1058-1063

  Kuratomi, Yuichiro ^a   Sato, Shintaro ^a   Monji, Mikio ^a   Shimazu, Rintaro ^a   Tanaka, Gou ^a   Yokogawa, Kyoko ^a   Inoue, Akiko ^a   Inokuchi, Akira ^a   Katayama, Masahiko ^b  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EISAI CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; Invasion; Laminin 2; Serum concentration; Tumor marker

Indexed keywords

LAMININ GAMMA 2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LAMININ; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 50249127132     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20838     Document Type: Article

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