extratumoral

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

extra- +‎ tumoral

Adjective[edit]

extratumoral (not comparable)

  1. Outside of a tumor
    • 2015 September 8, Filomena Cetani et al., “A nonfunctioning parathyroid carcinoma misdiagnosed as a follicular thyroid nodule”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology[1], volume 13, →DOI:
      The histological diagnosis of PC is currently restricted to lesions showing unequivocal extra-parathyroidal growth, as evidenced by perineural invasion, full thickness capsular invasion with growth into adjacent tissues, extratumoral vascular invasion, or metastasis.