Intranodal Lymphangiogenesis Precedes Development of Lymph Node Metastasis and Accelerates Progression of Gastric Cancer

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 481-490

  Watanabe, Mao ^a   Tanaka, Hiroaki ^a   Ohira, Masaichi ^a   Yoshii, Mami ^a   Sakurai, Katsunobu ^a   Toyokawa, Takahiro ^a   Kubo, Naoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Atsushi ^a   Muguruma, Kazuya ^a   Yamashita, Yoshito ^a   Maeda, Kiyoshi ^a   Sawada, Tetsuji ^a   Hirakawa, Kosei ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Lymphangiogenesis; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN C;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; UPREGULATION;

CARCINOMA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C;

EID: 84894497466     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-013-2407-y     Document Type: Article

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