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Murphy WM, Beckwith JB and Farrow GM: Tumors of the kidney, bladdder, and related urinary structures. In Atlas of Tumor Pathology, Third Series, Fascicle 11. Washington, DC. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1994.

Nochomovitz LE: Bladder Biopsy Interpretation: Biopsy Interpretation Series. Raven Press, New York, 1992.

Peterson RO: Urinary Bladder. In Urologic Pathology, Second Edition. JB Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1992, pp 260-394.

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Young RH, Elbe JN, and Grignon, DJ: Non neoplastic disorders and neoplasms of the urinary bladder. In Urologic Surgical Pathology, Edited by DG Bostwick and JN Elbe. St. Louis, 1997, pp 167-305.

Young RH: Pathology of the urinary bladder. Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1989.




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