Angiomatoid neuroendocrine carcinoma of the thymus: Report of a distinctive morphological variant of neuroendocrine tumor of the thymus resembling a vascular neoplasm

Human Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 635-639

  Moran, César A ^a,c   Suster, Saul ^b  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior mediastinum; Neuroendocrine carcinoma; Thymic carcinoid; Thymic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CD57 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN; KERATIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PARAGANGLIOMA; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMUS CANCER; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR GROWTH; VASCULAR TUMOR;

EID: 0032997783     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0046-8177(99)90087-4     Document Type: Article

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