Cytokeratin-positive malignant tumors with reticulum cell morphology: A subtype of fibroblastic reticulum cell neoplasm?

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-116

  Chan, Alexander C L ^a   Serrano Olmo, Juan ^b   Erlandson, Robert A ^c   Rosai, Juan ^d  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin positive reticulum cell; Cytokeratin positive reticulum cell tumor; Reticulum cell; Reticulum cell tumor

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN; DESMIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; RETICULUM CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITIC CELLS; DESMOSOMES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0033980273     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200001000-00013     Document Type: Article

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