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Concept

Oncology

Images

  • Metastatic seminoma of supraclavicular lymph node
  • Medical apparatus illustrating a notice for an event on oncology in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2009.
  • Myxoid liposarcoma, microscopy
  • MGG stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass
  • Squamous carcinoma of lacrimal gland, microscopy
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a clival chordoma, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (Pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma in the clivus, a part of the cranium at the base of the skull.
  • Section of a cystic mass isolated from the parotid gland
  • Human oral squamous cell carcinoma cell
  • Human oral squamous cell carcinoma cell
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma of the C2 vertebrae, located at the top of the neck just underneath the base of the skull.
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Catalogue

    • Journals

    Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

    | Date: ©1983-
    • E-journals
    • Online

    Lung cancer

    | Date: 1985-
    • Books

    Cancer stem cells : philosophy and therapies / Lucie Laplane.

    Laplane, Lucie, 1984- | Date: 2016
    • Journals

    Krebsarzt.

    • Journals

    Seminars in oncology.

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