Mast cell positivity to tryptase correlates with metastatic lymph nodes in gastrointestinal cancer patients treated surgically

Oncology (Switzerland)

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 111-116

  Ammendola, Michele ^a   Sacco, Rosario ^a   Donato, Giuseppe ^a   Zuccalà, Valeria ^a   Russo, Emilio ^a   Luposella, Maria ^a   Vescio, Giuseppina ^a   Rizzuto, Antonia ^a   Patruno, Rosa ^b   De Sarro, Giovambattista ^a   Montemurro, Severino ^b   Sammarco, Giuseppe ^a   Ranieri, Girolamo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^b Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO)   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Gastrointestinal cancer; Predictive factor; Prognosticator; Tryptase

Indexed keywords

TRYPTASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEMICOLECTOMY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRYPTASES;

EID: 84880405739     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000351145     Document Type: Article

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