Low-grade metaplastic carcinomas of the thymus: Biphasic thymic epithelial tumors with mesenchymal metaplasia - An update

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 195, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 555-563

  Yoneda, Satoshi ^a,b   Marx, Alexander ^a   Müller Hermelink, Hans Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Differential diagnosis; Metaplasia; Myasthenia gravis; Thymic carcinoma; Thymoma; Thymus; Tumour classification

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN; CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; METAPLASIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOLID TUMOR; SPINDLE CELL; THYMUS CANCER;

EID: 0032816482     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0344-0338(99)80005-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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