Epithelioid trophoblastic tumor: Clinicopathological features with an emphasis on uterine cervical involvement

Modern Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-82

  Fadare, Oluwole ^a   Parkash, Vinita ^b   Carcangiu, Maria Luisa ^c   Hui, Pei ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervix; Epithelioid trophoblastic tumor; Pathology

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; HYALIN; PROTEIN P63;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIOID TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NECROSIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; TUMOR CELL; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX; UTERUS CANCER; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIOID CELLS; FEMALE; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLACENTAL LACTOGEN; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TROPHOBLASTIC NEOPLASMS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 32844472128     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800485     Document Type: Article

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