Perineural invasion indicator
Property Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Property |
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METEOR identifier: | 429128 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether perineural invasion is evident in a pathology specimen. Perineural invasion refers to cancer cells tracking along or around a nerve within the space surrounding a nerve. |
Property group: | Impairment characteristic |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
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Reference documents: | Potter ST & Partin AW 2000. The significance of perineural invasion found on needle biopsy of the prostate: implications for definitive therapy. Reviews in Urology, Spring edition:87-88 |
Relational attributes | |
Data Element Concepts implementing this property: | Person with cancer—perineural invasion indicator Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
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