Primary cutaneous Ewing's sarcoma: Immunophenotypic and molecular cytogenetic evaluation of five cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 310-318

  Hasegawa, Susan L ^a   Davison, Jon M ^a   Rutten, Arno ^b   Fletcher, Jonathan A ^a   Fletcher, Christopher D M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Dermatopathologische Gemeinschaftspraxis   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosomal translocation.; Ewing's sarcoma; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Malignant primitive neuroectodermal tumor; Skin; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

CD99 ANTIGEN; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; IFOSFAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031935481     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199803000-00005     Document Type: Article

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