The role of ultrastructural pathology in the diagnosis of epithelial and unusual renal tumors

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-26

  Herrera, Guillermo A ^a   Turbat Herrera, Elba A ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Kidney; Renal cell carcinoma; Renal tumors; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY METASTASIS; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MESENCHYMOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030059794     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913129609023233     Document Type: Article

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