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Review
. 2000 Feb;156(2):383-8.
doi: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64740-2.

Vasculogenic mimicry: how convincing, how novel, and how significant?

D M McDonald  1 , L Munn, R K Jain
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Review

Vasculogenic mimicry: how convincing, how novel, and how significant?

D M McDonald et al. Am J Pathol. 2000 Feb.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Relationship between 3-dimensional structures and individual 2-dimensional sections from the same structures. Figures in A are adapted from Maniotis et al. The left-hand figure, showing an angiogram of a uveal melanoma, is an image of a 3-dimensional structure and must correspond to the example in B, which illustrates a 3-dimensional network of interconnecting tubes (left) and the resulting ellipses seen in a section (right). The right-hand figure of A, however, is a 5-μm section of the tumor shown in the angiogram and resembles more closely the structure in C, which shows a hypothetical clustering of planar and ellipsoidal objects (left) and the interconnected networks seen in a corresponding section (right).
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