Endosonographic and histopathological staging of extrahepatic bile duct cancer: Time to leave the present TNM-classification?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 594-600

  Domagk, Dirk ^a   Diallo, Raihana ^b   Menzel, Josef ^b   Schleicher, Christina ^b   Bankfalvi, Agnes ^b   Gabbert, Helmut E ^b   Domschke, Wolfram ^b   Poremba, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 16844381760     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.40663.x     Document Type: Article

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