Breast Carcinoma with Choriocarcinomatous Features

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 74-79

  Resetkova, Erika ^a   Sahin, Aysegul ^a   Ayala, Alberto G ^a   Sneige, Nour ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Choriocarcinoma; HCG; Metaplastic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; METAPLASIA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

EID: 1842852930     PISSN: 10929134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.anndiagpath.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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