Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast with rhabdomyosarcomatous element: Aspiration cytology with histological, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural correlations

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 153-158

  Yang, Grace C H ^a,b   Yee, Herman T ^a   Waisman, Jerry ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinosarcoma; Fine needle aspiration; Histiogenesis; Malignant mixed tumor with rhabdomyoid element; Malignant rhabdoid tumor; Rhabdomyosarcoma; Ultrafast Papanicolaou stain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LABELING; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; METAPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMERE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TONOFILAMENT; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOSARCOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMERES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0037335995     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10243     Document Type: Article

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