Histologic features and cytologic techniques that aid pathologic stage assessment of colonic adenocarcinoma

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1252-1258

  Panarelli, Nicole C ^a   Schreiner, Andrew M ^a   Brandt, Suzanne M ^a   Shepherd, Neil A ^b   Yantiss, Rhonda K ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AJCC; colon; peritoneum; serosa

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; COLON TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERITONEUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84880572973     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3182960e7c     Document Type: Article

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