Clinicopathological investigation of 5 autopsy cases of pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma

Japanese Journal of Lung Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 803-808

  Sagisaka, Shinya ^a   Uehara, Masahiro ^a   Harada, Masanori ^a   Sato, Jun ^a   Uchiyama, Hiroshi ^a   Imokawa, Shiro ^a   Yasuda, Kazumasa ^a   Tanioka, Fumihiko ^a   Suda, Takafumi ^b   Chida, Kingo ^b  

^a Iwata City Hospital   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Metastases; Pathological anatomy; Pleomorphic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; SMOKING; THORACOCENTESIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

EID: 78650364832     PISSN: 03869628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2482/haigan.50.803     Document Type: Article

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