Multiple primary cancers or multiple metastases, that is the question

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 930-931

  Asamura, Hisao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MULTIPLE CANCER; MULTIPLE PRIMARY LUNG CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOLOGIST; PHYSICIAN; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR CELL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY;

EID: 77954399056     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181e15d8c     Document Type: Editorial

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