Cancer of Unknown Primary Site Syndrome‐CUP Syndrome - Diagnostic and Therapeutical Dillemas
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Cancer of unknown primary site.
Copyright © 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society Cancer of unknown primary site is a heterogeneous group of cancers for which the anatomical site of origin remains occult after detailed investigations.1,2 The emergence of sophisticated imaging, immunohistochemical testing, and molecular-profiling tools has influenced our approach to unknown primary cancer, although it has also increased the ambig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Facultatis Medicae Naissensis
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2217-2521
DOI: 10.2478/afmnai-2014-0010