Mediastinal yolk sac tumors associated with prominent multilocular cystic changes of thymic epithelium: A clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of five cases

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 800-803

  Moran, Cesar A ^a   Suster, Saul ^b  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyst; Germ cell; Mediastinum; Thymus; Yolk sac

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS CYST; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; EPITHELIUM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0030876186     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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