'Signet-ring' cell gastric adenocarcinoma metastatic to a neurogenous hyperplasia of the appendix [2]

Histopathology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 663-665

  Pina Oviedo S ^a   Del Valle, L ^b   De Leon Bojorge, B ^c   Ortiz Hidalgo, C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PANAMERICANA   (Mexico)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AMERICAN BRITISH COWDRAY MEDICAL CENTER   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; APPENDIX CANCER; BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA;

AGED; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDIX; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEUROMA; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33947711719     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2007.02628.x     Document Type: Letter

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