## BACKGROUND. Prostate cancer, like other solid tumors, is a rather heterogeneous entity. More than 50% of all malignant prostatic tumors contain neuroendocrine-like cells, which cannot be attributed to small cell prostatic carcinoma or carcinoid-like tumors, which represent only 1-2% of all prost
Semiquantitative morphology of human prostatic development and regional distribution of prostatic neuroendocrine cells
✍ Scribed by Gerhard Aumüller; Markus Leonhardt; Heiner Renneberg; Burkhard von Rahden; Anders Bjartell; Per-Anders Abrahamsson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-4137
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