Digital microscopy assessment of angiogenesis in different breast cancer compartments

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Haisan, Anca ^a,b   Rogojanu, Radu ^c,d   Croitoru, Camelia ^e   Jitaru, Daniela ^f   Tarniceriu, Cristina ^a   Danciu, Mihai ^a   Carasevici, Eugen ^f  

^a GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b University Hospital Sf Spiridon   (Romania)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d TissueGnostics GmbH   (Austria)

^e Oradea   (Romania)

^f REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TUMOR INVASIVE FRONT; TUMOUR ASSOCIATED STROMA; TUMOUR PARENCHYMA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION; BREAST TUMOR; ENDOTHELIUM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; STROMA CELL; TUMOR INVASION; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD34; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84884873470     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/286902     Document Type: Article

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