True carcinosarcoma of the esophagus

Diseases of the Esophagus

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-52

  Iwaya, Takeshi ^a   Maesawa, C ^a   Uesugi, N ^a   Kimura, T ^a   Ogasawara, S ^a   Ikeda, K ^a   Kimura, Y ^a   Mitomo, S ^a   Ishida, K ^a   Sato, N ^a   Saito, K ^a   Masuda, T ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collision tumor; Esophagus; Osteosarcoma; p53; True carcinosarcoma

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARCINOMA CELL; CARCINOSARCOMA; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OSTEOID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOSARCOMA; DNA, NEOPLASM; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; GENES, P53; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 33645989453     PISSN: 11208694     EISSN: 14422050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2050.2006.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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