Adenocarcinoma ex-goblet cell carcinoid (appendiceal-type crypt cell adenocarcinoma) is a morphologically distinct entity with highly aggressive behavior and frequent association with peritoneal/intra-abdominal dissemination: An analysis of 77 cases

Modern Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1243-1253

  Reid, Michelle D ^a   Basturk, Olca ^b,e   Shaib, Walid L ^a   Xue, Yue ^a   Balci, Serdar ^a,f   Choi, Hye Jeong ^c   Akkas, Gizem ^a   Memis, Bahar ^a   Robinson, Brian S ^a   El Rayes, Bassel F ^a   Staley, Charles A ^a   Staley, Christopher A ^a   Winer, Joshua H ^a   Russell, Maria C ^a   Knight, Jessica H ^d   Goodman, Michael ^d   Krasinskas, Alyssa M ^a   Adsay, Volkan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APPENDICEAL CRYPT CELL ADENOCARCINOMA; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; CELL GROWTH; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL SHAPE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; GOBLET CELL; GYNECOLOGIST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN SURVIVAL TIME; ONCOLOGIST; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINEURAL INVASION; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSETTE FORMATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; ADENOCARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 84976292422     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2016.105     Document Type: Article

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