Pathology of neuroendocrine tumours

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4712-4718

  Insabato, Luigi ^a   Del Basso De Caro, Marialaura ^a   Caramanna, Elena ^a   De Rosa, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Classification; Neoplasia; Neuroendocrine; Pathology; Review; Tumour

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS;

EID: 63849158748     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3562     Document Type: Article

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