Primary cancer of the fallopian tube with transitional differentiation clinical and pathological assessment of 6 cases

Neoplasma

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 128-131

  Rabczynski J K ^b   Kochman, A T ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

c erbb 2 oncoprotein; Cancer with transitional differentiation; Fallopian tube; p 53 protein

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P53;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ONCOGENE C ERB; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; UTERINE TUBE CARCINOMA;

EID: 0345517348     PISSN: 00282685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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