α-fetoprotein-producing early gastric cancer: Report of two cases

Kurume Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 63-66

  Aoyagi, Keishiro ^a   Koufuji, Kikuo ^a   Yano, Shojiro ^a   Miyagi, Motoshi ^a   Koga, Atsuhiko ^a   Takeda, Jinryo ^a   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

AFP producing gastric cancer; Early gastric cancer; Hepatoid picture; Liver metastasis; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; EARLY CANCER; HEPATOID ADENOCARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0042974238     PISSN: 00235679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2739/kurumemedj.50.63     Document Type: Article

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