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Ultrastructural Pathology Volume 22, 1998 - Issue 5
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Lung Adenocarcinomas Metastatic to the Brain with and Without Ultrastructural Evidence of Rootlets: An Electron Microscopic and Immunohistochemical Study Using Cytokeratins 7 and 20 and Villin

Suash Sharma Department ofPathology, New York Veteran Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; Department of Pathology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Jianyou Tan Department ofPathology, New York Veteran Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; Department of Pathology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Gurdip Sidhu Department of Pathology, New York Veteran Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; Department of Pathology and Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Rosemary Wieczorek Department of Pathology, New York Veteran Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; Department of Pathology and Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Douglas C. Miller Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; Department of Pathology, New York Veteran Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Nicholas D. Cassai Department of Pathology, New York Veteran Affairs Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Pages 385-391 | Received 22 May 1998, Accepted 19 Jun 1998, Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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