Breast carcinoma diverging to aberrant melanocytic differentiation: A case report with histopathologic and loss of heterozygosity analyses

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1280-1287

  Nobukawa, Bunsei ^a,b   Fujii, Hiroaki ^a   Hirai, Shu ^a   Kumasaka, Toshio ^a   Shimizu, Hideo ^a   Matsumoto, Toshiharu ^a   Suda, Koichi ^a   Futagawa, Shunji ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aberrant melanocytic differentiation; Breast carcinoma; Genetic divergence; In situ carcinoma; Invasive ductal carcinoma; Loss of heterozygosity; Malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA, NEOPLASM; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032853947     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199910000-00015     Document Type: Article

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