Desmoplastic malignant mesothelioma: Two cases and a literature review

Medical Electron Microscopy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 173-178

  Hirano, Hiroshi ^a,b   Maeda, Hajime ^b,c   Sawabata, Noriyoshi ^b   Okumura, Yoshitomo ^b   Takeda, Shinichi ^b   Maekura, Ryoji ^b   Ito, Masami ^b   Maeda, Tamaki ^c   Nakane, Shigeru ^d   Uematsu, Kunio ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Department of Technology   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Desmoplastic malignant mesothelioma; Differential diagnosis; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CELL ANTIBODY; CYTOKERATIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MESOTHELIAL CELL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN BCL 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE REPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURFACE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESMOPLASTIC MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; HEART METASTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MESOTHELIOMA; MESOTHELIUM CELL; MICROVILLUS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PLEURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; THORAX WALL;

AGED; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0142090158     PISSN: 09184287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00795-003-0217-0     Document Type: Article

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