Tumor cells in intraoperative pleural lavage. An indicator for the poor prognosis of bronchogenic carcinoma

Expression of thymidine phosphorylase as

Expression of thymidine phosphorylase as an indicator of poor prognosis for patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder

✍ Jun-ichirou Arima; Yoshiharu Imazono; Yuji Takebayashi; Kenryu Nishiyama; Tsutom 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 334 KB 👁 2 views

## Background: Thymidine phosphorylase (tp), which is identical to platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (pd-ecgf), stimulates chemotaxis of endothelial cells and is involved in the angiogenesis of human solid tumors. ## Methods: The activity and expression of tp were examined in human