Cytokeratin typing as an aid in the differential diagnosis of primary versus metastatic lung carcinomas, and comparison with normal lung

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 440, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 70-76

  Scarpatetti, Michael ^a   Tsybrovskyy, Oleksiy ^a   Popper, Helmut H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin polypeptides; Lung carcinoma; Lung epithelia; Lung metastasis

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN 10; CYTOKERATIN 13; CYTOKERATIN 14; CYTOKERATIN 17; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 20; CYTOKERATIN 4; CYTOKERATIN 5; CYTOKERATIN 6; CYTOKERATIN 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036166522     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280100508     Document Type: Article

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