Primary extragonadal germ cell tumour: Unusual localization of a c-kit mutated retroperitoneal seminoma in the gastric wall [2]

Histopathology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 112-114

  Pauls, K ^a   Wardelmann, E ^a   Franke, F E ^b   Heukamp, L ^b   Buttner R ^b   Mey, U ^a   Zhou, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; M2A PROTEIN; PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CLINICAL FEATURE; EXTRAGONADAL GERM CELL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; ONCOGENE C KIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SEMINOMA; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH TUMOR; STOMACH WALL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SEMINOMA; STOMACH;

EID: 22144484858     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2005.02078.x     Document Type: Letter

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