Evaluation of diagnostic criteria and behavior of ovarian intestinal- type mucinous tumors: Atypical proliferative (borderline) tumors and intraepithelial, microinvasive, invasive, and metastatic carcinomas

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 617-635

  Riopel, Maureen A ^a   Ronnett, Brigitte M ^a   Kurman, Robert J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical proliferative mucinous tumor; Intraepithelial carcinoma; Metastases; Microinvasion; Mucinous borderline tumor; Mucinous carcinoma; Mucinous tumor of low malignant potential; Ovary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; OVARY TUMOR; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CYSTADENOMA, MUCINOUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROMAL CELLS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033023561     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199906000-00001     Document Type: Article

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