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Título: Prognostic significance of tumour vascularisation on survival of patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma
Fecha de publicación: 2009
Editorial: Murcia : F. Hernández
ISSN: 0213-3911
Materias relacionadas: 616.6 - Patología del sistema genitourinario
Palabras clave: Ovarian cancer
Prognosis
Resumen: Objective. The prognostic significance of microvessel density in ovarian cancer is still a matter of debate. Classically, the degree of vascularisation is assessed in areas of high vascular density (hot spots), considered as regions of increased probability of metastasis. Since ovarian tumours have a particular progression and dissemination behaviour, vascularisation outside hot spots may also contribute to their evolution. Methods. In the present study, the degree of tumour vascularisation was estimated both in whole histogical sections and in hot spots, in 235 patients with ovarian carcinoma, using fully automatic image analysis methods. Six parameters were estimated: mean microvessel density (MVD) and mean microvessel surface fraction (MSP) on the whole section, mean and maximum values of MVD and MSP inside hot spots (MVDHS1, MSPHS1 and MVDHS2, MSPHS2). Relationships between vascular parameters and clinicopathologic features were analysed. Results. In stage III-IV patients multivariate analysis showed that stage IV disease (hazards ratio (HR)=1.72, p=0.001), post-surgical residual disease 1cm (HR=2.86, p<0.001), upper MVD tercile (HR=1.45, p<0.022) and medial MVDHS1 tercile (HR=1.36, p=0.060) retained an independent prognostic value upon overall survival. Conclusion. Our results suggest that quantification of blood vessels, both on the whole histological section and in hot spots might be helpful in evaluating prognosis in advanced ovarian carcinomas.
Autor/es principal/es: Labiche, Alexandre
Elie, Nicolas
Herlin, Paulette
Denoux, Yves
Crouet, Hubert
Heutte, Natacha
Joly, Florence
Héron, Jean-François
Gauduchon, Pascal
Henry-Amar, Michel
Forma parte de: Histology and histopathology
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10201/36015
Tipo de documento: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Número páginas / Extensión: 11
Derechos: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Aparece en las colecciones:Vol.24, nº4 (2009)



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