Determining the relationship between "microvessel density" and different grades of astrocytoma based on immunohistochemistry for "factor VIII-related antigen" (von Willebrand factor) expression in tumor microvessels

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 605-610

  Mahzouni, Parvin ^a   Mohammadizadeh, Fereshteh ^a   Mougouei, Kourosh ^a   Moghaddam, Noushin Afshar ^a   Chehrei, Ali ^b   Mesbah, Alireza ^c  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ARAK UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; microvessel density; von Willebrand factor

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TISSUE FIXATION; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 78149366437     PISSN: 03774929     EISSN: 09745130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0377-4929.71996     Document Type: Article

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