Diagnosing vascular invasion in colorectal carcinomas: Improving reproducibility and potential pitfalls

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 543-547

  Cserni, Gábor ^a,b   Sejben, István ^a   Bori, Rita ^a  

^a BÁCS KISKUN COUNTY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DISTANT METASTASIS; EDITORIAL; ELASTICITY; ENDOTHELIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR INVASION;

COLORECTALCANCER; SURGICAL PATHOLOGY; VEINS;

BLOOD VESSELS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84879415090     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2013-201587     Document Type: Editorial

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