Splitting and Lumping Adult Renal Epithelial Tumours: Is That What the Urologists Want?

European Urology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 673-675

  Montironi, Rodolfo ^a   Scarpelli, Marina ^a   Martignoni, Guido ^b   Cheng, Liang ^c   Lopez Beltran, Antonio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Universidad de Cordoba   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY TUMOR; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 39449109263     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.11.011     Document Type: Editorial

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