Pulmonary giant cell carcinoma: Pathological entity or morphological phenotype?

Histopathology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 225-231

  Attanoos, R L ^a   Papagiannis, A ^b   Suttinont, P ^b   Goddard, H ^b   Papotti, M ^c   Gibbs, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b LLANDOUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Giant cell carcinoma; Lung neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CD57 ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CHROMOGRANIN A;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CARCINOMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0031888734     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.1998.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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