Nucleolar size in choroidal and ciliary body melanomas and corresponding hepatic metastases

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 458-462

  Al Jamal, Rana'A T ^a   Toivonen, Päivi ^a   Kivelä, Tero ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Choroid; Ciliary body; Liver; Melanoma; Metastases; Nucleoli

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; EPITOPE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL SIZE; CHOROID; CHOROID MELANOMA; CILIARY BODY; CILIARY BODY MELANOMA; CILIARY BODY TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; EPITHELIOID CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER METASTASIS; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULAR DENSITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEOLAR SIZE; NUCLEOLUS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SILVER STAINING; UVEA MELANOMA;

CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE ENUCLEATION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SILVER STAINING; SURVIVAL RATE; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77952807507     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01556.x     Document Type: Article

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