Mixed medullary and follicular carcinoma of the thyroid: On the search for its histogenesis

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1413-1418

  Matias Guiu, X ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN;

CANCER GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIXED TUMOR; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA;

EID: 0032706736     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65453-3     Document Type: Note

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