A simple technique for calculation of the volume of prostatic adenocarcinomas in radical prostatectomy specimens

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 199, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 599-604

  Mai, Kien T ^a   Mokhtar, Ghadeer ^b   Burns, Bruce F ^a   Perkins, D Garth ^a   Yazdi, Hossein M ^a   Stinson, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Prostate; Volume

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0242319809     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0344-0338-00467     Document Type: Article

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