Microvessel density as a prognostic factor in penile squamous cell carcinoma

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 325-329

  Al Najar, Amr ^a   Al Sanabani, Sakhr ^b   Korda, Joanna Beate ^d   Hegele, Axel ^c   Bolenz, Christian ^e   Herbst, Hermann ^b   Jönemann, Klaus Peter ^a   Naumann, Carsten Maik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b Neuköln Clinic   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Microvessel density; Penile cancer

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PENIS CARCINOMA; PENIS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR MICROVESSEL DENSITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PENILE NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860293786     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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