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1. The role of Nuclear Medicine remains pivotal in oncology, being the discipline that
allows the more effective approach to non-invasive lesion functional characterization (this
Thesis, chapt. 1)
2. VEGF expression in the pterygium endothelial and stromal cells can induce angiogenic
activity, demostrated by increased vascular microdensity (this Thesis, chapt. 4)
3. Patients with VEGF-positive osteosarcoma have lower survival rates than VEGF-negative
ones, thus measuring VEGF expression in-vivo may have a prognostic role (this Thesis,
chapt. 5)
4. VEGF and TGF-β1 are putative key mediators of vestibular schwannoma growth (this
Thesis, chapt. 6)
5. VEGFa is strongly positive in vascular endothelium, fibroblasts and myofibroblasts of
Dupuytren’s nodules (this Thesis, chapt. 7)
6. A detectable target is a target that may be more easily cured (this Thesis, chapt. 9)
7. Der Teufel, verkshteht sich, in den Einzelheiten (Anonymous)
8. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work (Thomas A. Edison)
9. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone
else (Albert Einstein)
10. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest
stepping stones to success (Dale Carnegie)
11. Many researchers are convinced to be great scientists, but self-evaluations may be
dangerous. It would be better to think every day that anyone is really a honest and
modest worker who has the possibility to teach and to learn something along his own
academic pathway
12. Sometimes in life you win. Sometimes… you learn !