Aspects of lymphatic vessel configuration of the human male urinary bladder and adjacent organs: A histological basis for understanding the spread of cancer metastases

• Main Authors: Yudai Ogawa (Author), Nobuyuki Hinata (Author), Gen Murakami (Author), Yukari Bando (Author), Kei Kitamura (Author), Ahmed Aly Hussein (Author), Khurshid Guru (Author), Shin-ichi Abe (Author), Masato Fujisawa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose: The spread of cancer cells via lymphatic vessels (LVs) is supposed to be an early event in the dissemination process of bladder cancer metastasis. However, the configuration of LVs in the human bladder has not been extensively examined microscopically. Therefore the distribution of LVs in t...