Lymphatic vessel density in correlation to lymph node metastasis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Anticancer Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1675-1679

  Frech, Stefanie ^a   Hörmann, Karl ^a   Riedel, Frank ^a   Götte, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Lymph node metastasis; Lymphatics; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS;

EID: 67650046240     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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