Radiographically occult, diffuse intrasinusoidal hepatic metastases from primary breast carcinomas: A clinicopathologic study of 3 autopsy cases

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1418-1423

  Allison, Kimberly H ^a,b   Fligner, Corinne L ^a   Parks, W Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; HERMES ANTIGEN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INFILTRATION; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER SINUSOID; STELLATE CELL; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HEPATIC VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 10344252356     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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