microinvasion

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ invasion.

Noun

microinvasion (countable and uncountable, plural microinvasions)

1. microscopic invasion
   • 2015 September 16, “Quantification of the Iodine Content of Perigastric Adipose Tissue by Dual-Energy CT: A Novel Method for Preoperative Diagnosis of T4-Stage Gastric Cancer”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In addition, for T4a lesions with perigastric microinvasion, even increasing the window width and window level in conventional MDCT could not clearly determine serosal invasion.

   • 2015 September 24, “Use of Labelled tLyP-1 as a Novel Ligand Targeting the NRP Receptor to Image Glioma”, in PLOS ONE‎^[2], →DOI:

     Similar to 18 F-tLyP-1, the tumor/brain ratios of FAM-tLyP-1 was also high, indicating both molecular reagents could likely by used to identify glioma microinvasions before the surgery and intraoperation to guide the resection of malignant glioma.