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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2002

The formation of lymphatic vessels and its importance in the setting of malignancy.

Michael Detmar, Satoshi Hirakawa

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Factors that may influence polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma growth.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael DetmarCutaneous Biology Research Center and Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA. michael.detmar@cbrc2.mgh.harvard.edu
Satoshi Hirakawa

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansLymphatic MetastasisLymphatic SystemLymphedemaNeovascularization, PhysiologicOligopeptidesPeptides, CyclicReceptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesReceptors, Growth FactorSomatostatinVascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-3lanreotideOligopeptidesPeptides, CyclicReceptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesReceptors, Growth FactorSomatostatinVascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-3

Identifiers

PMID12235205
PMCPMC2194053

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