Carcinosarcoma of the colon, one or two tumors?;Carcinosarcoma del colon, uno o due tumori?

Pathologica

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 62-68

  Gentile, R ^a   Castellaneta, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carcinosarcoma; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Intestinal neoplasia; Sarcomatoid Carcinoma; Spindle cell Carcinoma

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOSARCOMA; CASE REPORT; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COLON TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; RETROVIRUS; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SARCOMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; CARCINOSARCOMA; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, ROUGH; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ORGANELLES; RETROVIRIDAE; SARCOMA; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0031062854     PISSN: 00312983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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