A subgroup of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with an infiltrating replacement growth pattern and a resemblance to reactive proliferating bile ductules: 'Bile ductular carcinoma'

Histopathology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 390-400

  Kozaka, K ^a   Sasaki, M ^a   Fujii, T ^a   Harada, K ^a   Zen, Y ^a   Sato, Y ^a   Sawada, S ^a   Minato, H ^a   Matsui, O ^a   Nakanuma, Y ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biliary tree; Infiltration; Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; Reactive bile ductules; Tumour border

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE GROWTH;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD56; AUTOPSY; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; ORGAN SIZE; VIMENTIN;

EID: 34548118820     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2007.02735.x     Document Type: Article

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