Alveolar soft-part sarcoma of the urinary bladder with urethral recurrence: A unique case with emphasis on differential diagnoses and diagnostic utility of an immunohistochemical panel including TFE3

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1322-1325

  Amin, Mahul B ^a   Patel, Rajiv M ^a   Oliveira, Pedro ^b,c   Cabrera, Rafael ^b,c   Carneiro, Victor ^d   Preto, Mota ^d   Balzer, Bonnie ^a   Folpe, Andrew L ^a,e  

^a Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DE ONCOLOGIA DE LISBOA FRANCISCO GENTIL   (Portugal)

^d HOSPITAL DO DIVINO ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Portugal)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar soft part sarcoma; Differential diagnosis; Immunohistochemistry; TFE3; Urinary bladder; Urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; URETHRA TUMOR;

ADULT; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33749022208     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213298.34520.2b     Document Type: Article

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