Ultrastructural studies in a series of 18 cases of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 377-387

  Montes Moreno, Santiago ^a   Alemany Benítez, Isabel ^a   Martínez González, Miguel A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma; Microvesicles; Mitochondrial buds; Ultrastructural diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BUDDING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA;

EID: 27644567758     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019131290945691     Document Type: Article

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