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Carcinoma in Situ

"Carcinoma in Situ" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A lesion with cytological characteristics associated with invasive carcinoma but the tumor cells are confined to the epithelium of origin, without invasion of the basement membrane.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Carcinoma in Situ" by people in this website by year, and whether "Carcinoma in Situ" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 33 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1999 and 2011
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