Small cell undifferentiated carcinoma of the submandibular gland: Immunohistochemical evidence of myoepithelial, basal and luminal cell features

Pathology International

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 887-892

  Toyosawa, Satoru ^a   Ohnishi, Akio ^a   Ito, Reiko ^a   Ogawa, Yuzo ^a   Kishino, Mitsunobu ^a   Yasui, Yasunobu ^a   Kitamura, Ryuji ^a   Matsuya, Tokuzo ^a   Ishida, Takeshi ^a   Ijuhin, Naokuni ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basal cell; Luminal cell; Myoepithelial cell; Salivary duct; Small cell undifferentiated carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MYOEPITHELIUM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND DUCT; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

ACTINS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVARY DUCTS; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND NEOPLASMS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0032723785     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.1999.00952.x     Document Type: Article

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