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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma with non-squamous phenotype may be a variant of nasopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma after inhibition of EGFR/PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway.
Histology and histopathology - 1 May 2024
Wang Jiahe, Shang Yifan, Wang Yujiao, Li Ye, Wang Lei, Huang Sixia, Lyu Xinquan
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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a cancerous tumor that develops in the nasopharynx epithelium and typically has squamous differentiation. The squamous phenotype is evident in immunohistochemistry, with diffuse nuclear positivity for p63 and p40. Nonetheless, a few NPCs have been identified by clinicopathological diagnosis that do not exhibit the squamous phenotype; these NPCs are currently referred to as...
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