Vascular fractal dimension and total vascular area in the study of oral cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 298-307

  Goutzanis, Lampros P ^a   Papadogeorgakis, Nikolaos ^a   Pavlopoulos, Petros M ^b   Petsinis, Vasilis ^a   Plochoras, Ioannis ^c   Eleftheriadis, Efstathios ^a   Pantelidaki, Aikaterini ^c   Patsouris, Efstratios ^b   Alexandridis, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Fractal dimension; Image analysis; Oral cancer; Total vascular area

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 62249199147     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20959     Document Type: Article

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