Primary liver tumour of intermediate (hepatocyte-bile duct cell) phenotype: A progenitor cell tumour?

Liver

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 288-293

  Robrechts, C ^a   De Vos, R ^a   Van Den Heuvel, M ^a   Van Cutsem, E ^a   Van Damme, B ^a   Desmet, V ^a   Roskams, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver tumour; Progenitor cell; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN 19; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; STEM CELL;

EID: 0031757473     PISSN: 01069543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0676.1998.tb00168.x     Document Type: Article

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