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Cellular dissociation: a missing item in the pathology report and histologic grading of oral tongue cancer?

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  1. Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki, 3 (P.O. Box 21), N00014, HaartmaninkatuHelsinki, Finland

    Alhadi Almangush

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Research Program in Systems Oncology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Alhadi Almangush & Antti A. Mäkitie

  3. Institute of Biomedicine, Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Alhadi Almangush & Ilmo Leivo

  4. Faculty of Dentistry, Misurata University, Misurata, Libya

    Alhadi Almangush

  5. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

    Antti A. Mäkitie

  6. Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

    Antti A. Mäkitie

  7. Turku University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland

    Ilmo Leivo

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Conception of the manuscript and writing: AA, AM, IL.

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Almangush, A., Mäkitie, A.A. & Leivo, I. Cellular dissociation: a missing item in the pathology report and histologic grading of oral tongue cancer?. Virchows Arch 480, 717–718 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-022-03270-2

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