Testicular tumors - Some new and a few perennial problems

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 548-564

  Young, Robert H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOID TUMOR; EMBRYOMA; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; REVIEW; SEMINOMA; SERTOLI CELL TUMOR; SEX CORD TUMOR; TERATOMA; TESTIS TUMOR; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, EMBRYONAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PATHOLOGY; SEMINOMA; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41749092781     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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