Metastatic adenocarcinoma involving a mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescence (Cardiac MICE)

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 970-974

  Argani, Pedram ^a   Sternberg, Stephen S ^a   Burt, Michael ^a   Adsay, N Volkan ^a   Klimstra, David S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Mesothelial monocytic incidental cardiac excrescence; MICE

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; FIBRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CELL AGGREGATION; FEMALE; HEART METASTASIS; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MESOTHELIUM CELL; PERICARDIUM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONOCYTES; PERICARDIUM; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0030822574     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199708000-00013     Document Type: Article

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