 Neoplasms, Unknown Primary
"Neoplasms, Unknown Primary" 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.
Metastases in which the tissue of origin is unknown.
| Descriptor ID |
D009382
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.697.650.895 C23.550.727.650.895
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| Concept/Terms |
Neoplasms, Unknown Primary- Neoplasms, Unknown Primary
- Occult Primary Neoplasms
- Neoplasms, Occult Primary
- Neoplasm, Occult Primary
- Occult Primary Neoplasm
- Primary Neoplasm, Occult
- Primary Neoplasms, Occult
- Unknown Primary Neoplasms
- Neoplasm, Unknown Primary
- Primary Neoplasm, Unknown
- Primary Neoplasms, Unknown
- Unknown Primary Neoplasm
Unknown Primary Tumors- Unknown Primary Tumors
- Primary Tumor, Unknown
- Primary Tumors, Unknown
- Tumor, Unknown Primary
- Tumors, Unknown Primary
- Unknown Primary Tumor
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Neoplasms, Unknown Primary" by people in Profiles.
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Robinson HR, Lakritz S, Pavlick DC, Davis SL, Lieu CH, Eule CJ, Graham LS, Spiess PE, Li R, Kamat AM, Grivas P, Jacob JM, Bratslavsky G, Basnet A, Wong KA, Lin DI, Necchi A, Ross JS, Lam ET. Squamous cell carcinoma of unknown primary (SCCUP): a genomic landscape study. ESMO Open. 2025 Jun; 10(6):105312.
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Schwartz ZP, Li AJ, Walsh CS, Rimel BJ, Alvarado MM, Lentz SE, Cass I. Patterns of care and outcomes of risk reducing surgery in women with pathogenic variants in non-BRCA and Lynch syndrome ovarian cancer susceptibility genes. Gynecol Oncol. 2023 06; 173:1-7.
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Ghatasheh H, Huang SH, Su J, Xu W, Bratman SV, Cho J, Giuliani M, Hahn E, Hope A, Kim J, O'Sullivan B, Ringash J, Waldron J, Chepeha DB, Irish JC, Goldstein DP, Spreafico A, Tong L, de Almeida JR, Hosni A. Evaluation of risk-tailored individualized selection of radiation therapy target volume for head and neck carcinoma of unknown primary. Radiother Oncol. 2022 10; 175:56-64.
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Syme N, Brettfeld S, Dorneden A, Samedi V, Bocklage T, Myers O, Herzon F, Meiklejohn DA. Occult Malignancy in Adult Tonsillectomy for Benign Indication. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2021 Apr; 130(4):356-362.
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Horowitz G, Hosni A, Yu E, Xu W, Lu L, Au M, Dixon PR, Brown D, Chepeha DB, Gilbert RW, Goldstein DP, Gullane PJ, Irish JC, Bayley A, Cho J, Giuliani M, Huang SH, Hope A, Kim J, O'Sullivan B, Ringash J, Waldron J, Weinreb I, Perez-Ordonez B, Bratman SV, de Almeida JR. Prevalence, prognosis, and treatment implications of retropharyngeal nodes in unknown primary head and neck carcinoma. Oral Oncol. 2018 07; 82:162-167.
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Romero M, González-Fontal GR, Duarte M, Saavedra C, Henao-Martínez AF. Small clonal B-cell population in the bone marrow as a possible tool in the diagnosis of occult primary parotid lymphoma. Colomb Med (Cali). 2016 Mar 30; 47(1):59-62.
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Bernard B, Sweeney CJ. Diagnosis and Treatment of Testicular Cancer: A Clinician's Perspective. Surg Pathol Clin. 2015 Dec; 8(4):717-23.
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Ettinger DS, Handorf CR, Agulnik M, Bowles DW, Cates JM, Cristea M, Dotan E, Eaton KD, Fidias PM, Gierada D, Gilcrease GW, Godby K, Iyer R, Lenzi R, Phay J, Rashid A, Saltz L, Schwab RB, Shulman LN, Smerage JB, Stevenson MM, Varadhachary GR, Zager JS, Zhen WK, Bergman MA, Freedman-Cass DA. Occult primary, version 3.2014. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2014 Jul; 12(7):969-74.
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Asgari MM, Sokil MM, Warton EM, Iyer J, Paulson KG, Nghiem P. Effect of host, tumor, diagnostic, and treatment variables on outcomes in a large cohort with Merkel cell carcinoma. JAMA Dermatol. 2014 Jul; 150(7):716-23.
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Pan Z, Chen YY, Wu X, Trisal V, Wilczynski SP, Weiss LM, Chu PG, Wu H. Merkel cell carcinoma of lymph node with unknown primary has a significantly lower association with Merkel cell polyomavirus than its cutaneous counterpart. Mod Pathol. 2014 Sep; 27(9):1182-92.
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