Desmoplasia in medullary thyroid carcinoma: A reliable indicator of metastatic potential

Histopathology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 623-630

  Koperek, O ^a   Scheuba, C ^a   Cherenko, M ^b   Neuhold, N ^c   De Micco, C ^b   Schmid, K W ^d   Niederle, B ^a   Kaserer, K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b School of Medicine   (France)

^c Kaiserin Elisabeth Spital ^*  (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Desmoplasia; Interobserver reliability; Lymph node metastasis; Medullary thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; DESMOPLASIA; FEMALE; FIBROMA; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROMAL CELLS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41149155222     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2008.03002.x     Document Type: Article

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