Metastatic intestinal carcinomas simulating primary ovarian clear cell carcinoma and secretory endometrioid carcinoma. A clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of five cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 805-815

  Young, Robert H ^a   Hart, William R ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clear cell adenocarcinoma; Immunohistochemistry; Metastasis; Neoplasms; Ovary; Secretory endometrioid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE CARCINOMA; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY METASTASIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; KERATIN-20; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031849874     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199807000-00003     Document Type: Article

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