Variation in vascular distribution in small lung cancers

Lung Cancer

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 389-393

  Zhang, Lijuan ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^a   Henschke, Claudia I ^a   Reeves, Anthony P ^b   Vazquez, Madeline F ^a   Carter, Darryl ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Computed tomography; Histology; Non small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; LUNG TUMOR; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952551957     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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