Epithelioid sarcoma of Enzinger

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 114-121

  Fisher, Cyril ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Epithelioid; Sarcoma; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; DESMIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN; TUMOR MARKER;

APONEUROSIS; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIOID SARCOMA; FIBROMA; GENETICS; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LIMB; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCALP; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TENDON SHEATH; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR TUMOR; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; HISTORY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

EPITHELIOID CELLS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33747331721     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00125480-200605000-00002     Document Type: Review

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