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This type of angiogenesis involves glomeruloid bodies, complex vascular aggregates composed of several closely associated microvessels surrounded by a variably thickened basement membrane within which a limited number of pericytes are embedded. Glomeruloid bodies are a diagnostic histopathological features of glioblastoma multiforme but have been described also in a wide variety of other malignancies (Brat and Van Meir, 2001). Glomeruloid microvascular proliferation has been shown to indicate an aggressive angiogenic phenotype in human
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