Inflammatory breast carcinoma as a model of accelerated self-metastatic expansion by intravascular growth

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1028-1029

  Vermeulen, P B ^a   Van Laere, S J ^a   Dirix, L Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MODEL; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL MIGRATION; COMPUTER MODEL; LETTER; LYMPH VESSEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING;

EID: 70249110359     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605251     Document Type: Letter

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