Pediatric liver tumors and hepatic ontogenesis: Common and distinctive pathways

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 492-503

  Zimmermann, Arthur ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angiomyolipoma; Embryonal sarcoma; Hepatoblastoma; Hepatocarcinogenesis; Liver development; Liver tumors

Indexed keywords

ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; BILIARY TRACT TUMOR; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPITHELIOID CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER SARCOMA; LIVER TUMOR; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHILD; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA;

EID: 0036836486     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.10174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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