Carcinoid tumors of the urinary tract and prostate

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1693-1706

  Murali, Rajmohan ^a,b,c   Kneale, Kenneth ^b   Lalak, Nestor ^b   Delprado, Warick ^b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology ^*

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLADDER CARCINOID; CARCINOID; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CARCINOID; MALE; METASTASIS; PARAGANGLIOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOID; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE TUMOR; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; URETHRA CARCINOID; URINARY TRACT CARCINOID; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA; URINARY TRACT TUMOR;

CARCINOID TUMOR; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PARAGANGLIOMA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33750587865     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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