Primo Vascular System Accompanying a Blood Vessel from Tumor Tissue and a Method to Distinguish It from the Blood or the Lymph System
Figure 2
Stereoscopic image of a tumor and its surrounding area. (a) The skin was incised, and blood, lymph, and nerves in the myofascia were exposed. The rectangular area is magnified in (b). (b) Blood vessels (arrows), lymph vessels (double arrows), nerves (dotted arrows), and bundles of blood vessels and nerves (arrowheads) are seen connected to tumor tissue. They came out from the tumor (T) in radial direction. A lymphatic network that develops in adipose tissue (area between the dotted lines) can also be seen. Primo vessels accompanying blood vessels were not detectable with a stereomicroscopic image.
