TY - JOUR ID - TI - Microvessel density in Renal Cell Carcinoma AU - Mazin J. Ibrahim AU - NabeelA.Rasheed AU - Manal A. Habib PY - 2010 VL - 52 IS - 4 SP - 424 EP - 425 JO - Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad مجلة كلية الطب SN - 00419419 24108057 AB - Background:Prognostic histological evaluation of many cancers have recently concentrated on angiogenesis.
Materials &Methods: A total of twenty formaline-fixed, paraffin embedded blocks of renal cell carcinoma were included in this study. Sections weresubjected for immunohistochemical staining of CD34. The median of the MVD of all cases of RCC were obtained to divide the cases into high- and low-MVD score groups and were correlated with the tumor stage and grade. Results: there was a significant correlation of the high MVD score with tumor stage (P=0.02).

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