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C N Penfold1, M Partridge, R Rojas, J D Langdon.
Abstract
Microvessels were counted in 41 primary oral squamous cell carcinomas using JC70 antibody to PECAM (CD31). The counts were compared with clinical and pathological indicators of tumour behaviour including lymph node status, tumour stage, type of histological differentiation, size and velocity of tumour growth. Tumour microvessel counts correlated with lymph node metastasis (p < 0.001). This association was independent of tumour size, velocity and type of histological differentiation and when all the variables were analysed by multivariate analysis only vascular count showed a significant association with lymph node metastasis.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID： 8645680 DOI： 10.1016/s0266-4356(96)90133-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg ISSN： 0266-4356 Impact factor: 1.651