The world health organization classification of adenohypophysial neoplasms: A proposed five-tier scheme

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 502-510

  Kovacs, Kalman ^a   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^b   Horvath, Eva ^a   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; electron microscopy; histology; immunocytochemistry; pituitary neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HUMANS; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0029954648     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960801)78:3<502::AID-CNCR18>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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