Undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like multinucleated giant cells arising in an ovarian mature cystic teratoma

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 184-187

  Kita, Naoki ^a   Satoh, Toyomi ^a   Onuki Tanabe, Mamiko ^a   Ainoya, Yoko ^a   Yamada, Naoki ^b   Oki, Akinori ^a   Tsunoda, Hajime ^a   Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Ibaraki Seinan Medical Center Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Malignant transformation; Mature cystic teratoma; Osteoclast like multinucleated giant cells; Ovary; Undifferentiated carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOSARCOMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCLAST; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY TERATOMA; OVARY TUMOR; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; OSTEOCLASTS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA;

EID: 0345168057     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074283     Document Type: Article

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