Histopathological diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Looking beyond the blue book

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 778, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-22

  Nicholls, John ^a   Niedobitek, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Emergency Hospital Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Squamous cell carcinoma; Squamous differentiation; Transitional cell carcinoma; Undifferentiated carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KERATINIZING SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; NONKERATINIZING SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VIRUS LOAD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85017071112     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5947-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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