Metastatic patterns of cancers : Results from a large autopsy study

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 931-939

  DiSibio, Guy ^a   French, Samuel W ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; DUODENUM CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; PROSTATE CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; FEMALE; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

AUTOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 45549109634     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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