Upper urinary tract carcinomas: histological types and unusual morphological variants

Diagnostic Histopathology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-54

  Perez Montiel, Delia ^a,b   Suster, Saul ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

metaplastic phenomena; upper urinary tract; urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; LYMPHOEPITHELIOMA LIKE CARCINOMA; MCIROPAPILLARY CARCINOMA; MORPHOLOGY; PLASMA CELL; RHABDOID TUMOR; SARCOMATOID CARCINOMA; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; URINARY TRACT CANCER; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA; UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA;

EID: 41449099162     PISSN: 17562317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpdhp.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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