Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation (malignant triton tumor)

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1878-1881

  Stasik, Christopher J ^a   Tawfik, Ossama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT TRITON TUMOR; MESENCHYME CELL; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PROGNOSIS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHWANN CELL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANTIGENS, CD57; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; S100 PROTEINS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33845428536     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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