Recently, peritumoural (lympho) vascular invasion, assessed on haematoxylin–eosin (HE)-
stained slides, was added to the St Gallen criteria for adjuvant treatment of patients with …

Background: Lymphatic vessel invasion (LVI) has been conventionally assessed on
hematoxylin-eosin (HE) stained sections, but this assessment tends to be subjective. The …

In a previous study on a small series of breast cancers, we developed objective methods for
the assessment of vascular invasion (VI), using immunohistochemical staining. We found …

Lymphovascular invasion (LBVI) has long been recognized as an essential step of
metastases in patients with cancer. However, the process of invasion into lymphatic and …

The presence of vascular invasion (VI), encompassing both lymphovascular invasion (LVI)
and blood vascular invasion (BVI), in breast cancer has been found to be a poor prognostic …

Controversy exists regarding the topography of lymph vessels in breast cancer, their
usefulness as prognostic factors, relationship with angiogenesis and whether active …

Prognostic factors for breast cancer include axillary lymph node status, tumor size, histology,
nuclear grade, presence of estrogen and progesterone receptors, HER2/neu status, and …

The association between tumour vascularity and relapse was examined in 93 patients with
lymph node negative (LNN) invasive breast cancer. Factor VIII-related antibody was used to …

Background: The prognostic value of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) in patients with breast
cancer is unclear. Lymphatic invasion may mainly represent the selective affinity of breast …

Early metastasis to lymph nodes is a frequent complication in human breast cancer.
However, the extent to which this depends on lymphangiogenesis or on invasion of existing …