Pathologic staging of tumors: Pitfalls and opportunities for improvements

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 103-108

  Adsay, N Volkan ^a   Basturk, Olca ^b   Saka, Burcu ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CAP; Pathologic staging; Problem; TNM; Tumor

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MELANOMA; PATHOLOGIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84867440856     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: 19301111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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