Primary yolk sac tumor of the urachus: Case report with immunohistochemical and flow cytometric studies

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1106-1109

  Huang, Hsuan Ying ^a   Ko, Sheung Fat ^a   Chuang, Jiin Haur ^a   Jeng, Yung Ming ^b   Sung, Ming Tse ^a   Chen, Wei Jen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYTOKERATIN; DNA; ETOPOSIDE; PROTEIN MDM2; PROTEIN P53; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIPLOIDY; EMBRYONAL RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPERITONEUM; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; METASTASIS; NECROSIS; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TESTIS; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME; UMBILICAL VEIN; UMBILICUS; URACHUS; VOMITING; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; ETOPOSIDE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; KERATINS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MDM2; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URACHUS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036770447     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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