Clinicopathologic and electron microscopic study of cutaneous neuroendocrine (Merkel cell) carcinoma in a cat with comparisons to human and canine tumors

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 553-556

  Patnaik, A K ^a   Post, G S ^b   Erlandson, R A ^b  

^a ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cat diseases; Cutaneous neoplasms; Merkel cell carcinoma; Neuroendocrine carcinoma: Skin

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAT; CAT DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG TUMOR; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOGS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035462966     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.38-5-553     Document Type: Article

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