Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland: Diagnostic cytopathological characteristics

Pathologica

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-13

  Us Krasovec, M ^a   Auersperg, M ^a   Bergant, D ^a   Goi ouh, R ^a   Kloboves Prevodnik, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Fine needle biopsy; Immunocytochemistry; Medullary carcinoma; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CALCITONIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 0031994538     PISSN: 00312983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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