Overinterpretation is common in pathological diagnosis of appendix cancer during patient referral for oncologic care

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Valasek, Mark A ^a   Thung, Irene ^a   Gollapalle, Esha ^a   Hodkoff, Alexey A ^a   Kelly, Kaitlyn J ^b   Baumgartner, Joel M ^b   Vavinskaya, Vera ^a   Lin, Grace Y ^a   Tipps, Ann P ^a   Hosseini, Mojgan V ^a   Lowy, Andrew M ^b  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX ADENOCARCINOMA; APPENDIX CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM; LOW GRADE APPENDICEAL MUCINOUS NEOPLASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUCOCELE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDIX; CANCER GRADING; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDIX; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 85020422186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179216     Document Type: Article

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