Atypical small acinar proliferation: Biopsy artefact or distinct pathological entity?

BJU International

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 780-785

  Flury, Sarah C ^a   Galgano, Mary T ^a   Mills, Stacey E ^a   Smolkin, Mark E ^a   Theodorescu, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Pathology; Prostate; Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia; Prostatic neoplasms; Radical cystectomy

Indexed keywords

2 METHYLACYL COENZYME A RACEMASE; KERATIN;

ACINAR CELL; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BASAL CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33947310622     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06703.x     Document Type: Article

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