Desmoplastic small round cell tumour of unknown primary origin with lymph node and lung metastases: Histological, cytological, ultrastructural, cytogenetic and molecular findings

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 432, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-141

  Backer, Amy ^a   Mount, Sharon L ^a   Zarka, Matthew A ^a   Trask, Carol E ^a   Allen, Elizabeth F ^a   Gerald, William L ^c   Sanders, Dennis A ^b   Weaver, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cilia; Desmoplastic round cell tumour; DSRCT; EWS; WT1

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOGENETICS; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EWING SARCOMA; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MESENCHYME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NERVE CELL; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; OVARY TUMOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROSA; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; CILIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPING; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE, PERIPHERAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031943471     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280050147     Document Type: Article

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