Value and limits of immunohistochemistry in differential diagnosis of clear cell primary brain tumors

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-30

  Koperek, Oskar ^a,b   Gelpi, Ellen ^a   Birner, Peter ^b   Haberler, Christine ^a   Budka, Herbert ^a   Hainfellner, Johannes A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Central neurocytoma; Clear cell ependymoma; Immunohistochemistry; Oligodendroglioma

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN S 100; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VIMENTIN;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPENDYMOMA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROCYTOMA; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; S100 PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIMENTIN;

EID: 3242739369     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-004-0856-9     Document Type: Article

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