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[Tumor angiogenesis: histologic features]
1Laboratoire d'Anatomie et Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon.
Bulletin De L'Academie Nationale De Medecine
|September 16, 2000
Abstract:
The recent developments of the research on tumor angiogenesis have resulted into three main types of histopathological studies: the evaluation of the intra-tumoral microvascular density, the in situ exploration of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the angiogenic process and the in situ analysis of the expression of pro- or anti-angiogenic factors. Intra-tumoral microvascular density has been proposed as a potential prognostic marker in several types of human cancers, but its use is hampered by the difficulty to standardize its techniques of measure.