"Optimizing Microvessel Counts According to Tumor Zone in Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Modern Pathology, "We calculated microvessel counts (MVCs) by analyzing CD31-stained sections in three tumor zones (central, intermediate, and peripheral) in 147 cases of invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). The purpose of the study was to discover whether there is a difference in MVC in the different zones of tumor, which zone contains the highest MVC within the tumor, from which zone the MVCs best correlate with tumor recurrence or tumor death, and which histologic factors correlate with the MVC of the tumor. Sections were scanned to assess the highest number of microvessels in any single 200x field (0.384 mm²). In...

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