Gastric hepatoid adenocarcinoma with autophagy-related necrosis-like tumor cell death: Report of a case

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 301-307

  Caruso, Rosario A ^a   Basile, F ^a   Fedele, F ^a   Zuccala V ^a   Crisafulli, C ^a   Fracassi, M G ^a   Quattrocchi, E ^a   Venuti, A ^a   Fabiano, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autophagic cell death; Gastric carcinoma; Hepatoid differentiation; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NECROSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH TUMOR; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; AUTOPHAGY; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NECROSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748706137     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120600820575     Document Type: Article

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