Staging of primary mediastinal tumors

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Weissferdt, Annikka ^a   Moran, Cesar A ^a  

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

Author keywords

germ cell tumors; mediastinum; staging; thymic carcinoma; thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma; thymoma

Indexed keywords

CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; TUMOR GROWTH;

HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84871818410     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0b013e31827b6619     Document Type: Review

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