The comparative role of immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy in the identification of myogenic differentiation in soft tissue pleomorphic sarcomas

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 295-304

  Franchi, Alessandro ^a   Massi, Daniela ^a   Santucci, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Myofibrosarcoma; Pleomorphic sarcomas; Soft tissues

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ADULT; AGED; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBROMYXOSARCOMA; FIBROSARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MUSCLE FIBRIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE PLEOMORPHIC SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUSCLES; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 22244469772     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120590951293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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