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Table 1 Endothelial covering on intravascular tumor emboli from human cancers.

From: Morphological evidence for an invasion-independent metastasis pathway exists in multiple human cancers

Origin of cancer

Histological type (number of cases)

Endothelial covering

Thyroid

FTC (10)

10

Liver

HCC (10)

10

Kidney

RCC (10)

9

Stomach

ADC (10)

1

Colon

ADC (10)

2

Breast

ADC (10)

3

Pancreas

ADC (10)

1

Lung

SQCC (4), ADC (6)

2

Uterus

SQCC (5), ADC (5)

1

Esophagus

SQCC (10)

1

  1. FTC, follicular thyroid carcinoma; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; RCC, renal cell carcinoma; ADC, adenocarcinoma; SQCC, squamous cell carcinoma.