Review of sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma with focus on clinical and pathobiological aspects

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 551-555

  Kuroda, Naoto ^a   Toi, M ^a   Hiroi, M ^a   Enzan, H ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pathology; Sarcomatoid renal cell carcinomas

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DESMIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; INTERFERON; METHOTREXATE; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG PREFERENCE; FIBROSARCOMA; FLANK PAIN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HEMATURIA; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPING; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY PAPILLA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEPHRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOM;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CHROMOSOMES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0037377944     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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