Small foci of high-grade carcinoma cells in adenoid cystic carcinoma represent an incipient phase of dedifferentiation [2]

Histopathology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 604-606

  Ide, F ^a   Mishima, K ^a   Saito, I ^a  

^a TSURUMI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOMA CELL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOFT PALATE;

CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE, SOFT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0346216955     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2003.01682.x     Document Type: Letter

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