Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor‐C correlates with the lymphatic microvessel density and the nodal status in oral squamous cell cancer
- 5 August 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine
- Vol. 32 (8) , 455-460
- https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0714.2003.00168.x
Abstract
Background: The cause of preferential metastatic spreading to cervical lymph nodes in oral squamous cell cancer (SCC) is not quite clear. As the density of microvessels may influence the metastatic ...Keywords
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