High-grade urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis: Clinicopathologic study of 108 cases with emphasis on unusual morphologic variants

Modern Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 494-503

  Perez Montiel, Delia ^a,b   Wakely Jr , Paul E ^a   Hes, Ondrej ^c   Michal, Michal ^c   Suster, Saul ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

High grade; Metaplastic phenomena; Renal pelvis; Urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY PAPILLA; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY PELVIS CARCINOMA; LYMPHOEPITHELIOMA; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOID TUMOR; SARCOMA; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KERATIN-7; KERATINS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33645326856     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800559     Document Type: Article

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