RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Neuroendocrine tumours in rare sites: differences in nomenclature and diagnostics—a rare and ubiquitous histotype
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 563
OP 574
DO 10.1136/jclinpath-2015-203551
VO 69
IS 7
A1 Guadagno, Elia
A1 De Rosa, Gaetano
A1 Del Basso De Caro, Marialaura
YR 2016
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/69/7/563.abstract
AB The diagnosis of neuroendocrine tumours in typical sites, as gastrointestinal tract and lung, is based upon well-coded criteria that have become familiar to most of the pathologists. Much more difficult is the recognition and allocation of proper nomenclature to be referred to the same histotype in locations where these tumours have a lower incidence. The aim of our review was to provide a quick handbook of the main diagnostic pitfalls known in literature that can interpose in the histopathological examination of neuroendocrine tumours in rare sites (urinary system and male genital organs, female genital organs, head and neck and breast).