Testicular hilum and vascular invasion predict advanced clinical stage in nonseminomatous germ cell tumors

Modern Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 579-586

  Yilmaz, Asli ^a   Cheng, Tina ^b   Zhang, Jianguo ^c   Trpkov, Kiril ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

nonseminomatous germ cell tumor; predictive factors; prognostic factors; rete testis invasion; testicular cancer; testicular hilum invasion; vascular invasion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELL TUMOR; HILAR SOFT TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETE TESTIS; SPERMATIC CORD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTICULAR HILUM; TESTIS; TUMOR VOLUME; TUNICA VAGINALIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; RETE TESTIS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876490365     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2012.189     Document Type: Article

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