Epithelioid variant of myxofibrosarcoma: Expanding the clinicomorphologic spectrum of myxofibrosarcoma in a series of 17 cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-105

  Nascimento, Alessandra F ^a   Bertoni, Franco ^b   Fletcher, Christopher D M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Servizio di Anatomia Patologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Epithelioid; Melanoma; Myxofibrosarcoma; Sarcoma; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; DESMIN; KERATIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; EPITHELIOID SARCOMA; FASCIA; FEMALE; FIBROMYXOSARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPOSARCOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MYOEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEOLUS; PAIN; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPITHELIOID CELLS; EXTREMITIES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOEPITHELIOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33845930788     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213379.94547.e7     Document Type: Article

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