Mullerian inhibiting substance, alpha-inhibin, and CD99 expression in sex cord-stromal tumors and endometrioid ovarian carcinomas resembling sex cord-stromal tumors

Human Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 840-845

  Matias Guiu, Xavier ^a   Pons, Cristina ^a   Prat, Jaime ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alpha inhibin; Endometrioid carcinoma; Immunohistochemistry; Mullerian inhibiting substance; CD99; Ovarian tumors; Sex cord stromal tumors

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN A; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; CD99 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GROWTH INHIBITOR; INHIBIN; INHIBIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; INHIBIN-ALPHA SUBUNIT; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; MULLERIAN INHIBITING HORMONE; MULLERIAN-INHIBITING HORMONE; PEPTIDE; TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX CORD TUMOR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; METABOLISM; MUELLERIAN DUCT; OVARY; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; TESTIS;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INHIBINS; MALE; MULLERIAN DUCTS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PEPTIDES; SEX CORD-GONADAL STROMAL TUMORS; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031596443     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0046-8177(98)90454-3     Document Type: Article

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