Calcifications in ovary and endometrium and their neoplasms

Modern Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-222

  Silva, Elvio G ^a   Deavers, Michael T ^a   Parlow, A F ^b   Gershenson, David M ^a   Malpica, Anais ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcifications; Endometrium; Hormones; Ovary; Pathogenesis; Tumor

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROSA; STROMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CALCINOSIS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIPHENE; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GUINEA PIGS; HORMONES; MEGESTROL ACETATE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PROLACTIN; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0037343251     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MP.0000057236.96797.07     Document Type: Article

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