Limited prognostic value of the 2004 International Union Against Cancer staging classification for adrenocortical carcinoma: Proposal for a revised TNM classification

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5847-

  Grubbs, Elizabeth ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LETTER; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADRENOCORTICAL CARCINOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 73149099170     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24693     Document Type: Letter

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