Leiomyoblastoma of the uterus: An immunohistochemical and electron microscopic study of distinctive tumours with immature smooth muscle cell differentiation mimicking fetal uterine myocytes

Histopathology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 379-386

  Watanabe, Kazuo ^a   Ogura, G ^a   Suzuki, T ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetus; Leiomyoblastoma; Leiomyoma; Smooth muscle cell; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CALDESMON; DESMIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; DENSE BODY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOBLASTOMA; MESENCHYME; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; MUSCLE CELL; MYOFILAMENT; MYOMETRIUM; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THIN FILAMENT; UTERUS TUMOR;

ACTINS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DESMIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; LEIOMYOMA, EPITHELIOID; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; ORGANELLES; ORGANOGENESIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 0037391595     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.2003.01602.x     Document Type: Article

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