Solid alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma of the thorax in a child

Histopathology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-171

  Sartelet, H ^a   Lantuejoul, S ^a   Armari Alla, C ^a   Pin, I ^a   Delattre, O ^b   Brambilla, E ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Mediastinum; Rhabdomyosarcoma; Solid alveolar; Translocation 2 13

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX CANCER;

BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; CHILD; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, ALVEOLAR;

BRONCHUS;

EID: 0031881323     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.1998.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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