Cancer permeates locally within ontogenetic compartments: Clinical evidence and implications for cancer surgery

Future Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-36

  Höckel, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cancer surgery; compartment; embryology; ontogenetic anatomy; tumor invasion

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; COMPARTMENT MODEL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HUMAN; METASTASIS; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 83655196956     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.11.128     Document Type: Review

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