Does comprehensive clinical assessment improve the accuracy of predicting cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C?
A comprehensive clinical assessment utilizing clinical and laboratory data more accurately predicts the presence and absence of cirrhosis in CHC than individual markers.
Our data indicate that human mast cells are both a source and a target of angiogenic and lymphangiogenic factors and therefore might play a role in inflammatory and neoplastic angiogenesis through the expression of several forms of VEGFs and their receptors.