Clinical significance of microvessel count in patients with metastatic liver cancer originating from colorectal carcinoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2130-2137

  Nanashima, Atsushi ^a   Shibata, Kenichirou ^a   Nakayama, Toshiyuki ^a   Tobinaga, Syuuichi ^a   Araki, Masato ^a   Kunizaki, Masaki ^a   Takeshita, Hiroaki ^a   Hidaka, Shigekazu ^a   Sawai, Terumitsu ^a   Nagayasu, Takeshi ^a   Yasutake, Toru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650995763     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0459-8     Document Type: Article

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