Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumor of the esophagus: A clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural study of a case and review of the literature

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1651-1659

  Lam, King Yin ^a,b   Law, Simon Ying Kit ^b   Chu, Kent Man ^b   Ma, Lily Tung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

autonomic nerve tumor; esophagus; immunohistochemistry; stromal tumor; ultrastructural

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL AUTONOMIC NERVE TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, NERVE TISSUE;

EID: 0029763944     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19961015)78:8<1651::AID-CNCR3>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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