Pleural malignant mesothelioma with invasive micropapillary component and its association with pulmonary metastasis: Case report

Pathology International

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 874-879

  Mogi, Ai ^a,c   Nabeshima, Kazuki ^a   Hamasaki, Makoto ^a   Uesugi, Noriko ^b   Tamura, Kazuo ^c   Iwasaki, Akinori ^d   Shirakusa, Takayuki ^d   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Department of Medicine   (Japan)

^d Endocrine and Pediatric Surgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

Invasion; Invasive micropapillary component; Malignant mesothelioma; Metastasis; Pleural

Indexed keywords

MUCIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELL SURFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; PAPILLOMA; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUCIN-1; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 71049143122     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2009.02459.x     Document Type: Article

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