High molecular weight caldesmon positive stromal cells in the capsule of thyroid follicular tumours and tumour-like lesions

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 917-920

  Nakayama, H ^a,b   Enzan, H ^b   Miyazaki, E ^b   Moriki, T ^c   Kiyoku, H ^d   Toi, M ^b   Kuroda, N ^b   Hiroi, M ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOKUSHIMA PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALDESMON;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NODULAR GOITER; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STROMA CELL; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; STROMAL CELLS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036905308     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.55.12.917     Document Type: Article

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