Medulloepithelioma: Two unusual locations

Pathology International

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 91-95

  Takei, Hidehiro ^a   Florez, Luisa ^b   Moroz, Krzysztof ^c   Bhattacharjee, Meenakshi B ^b  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Lumbosacral intraspinal region; Medulloepithelioma; Optic nerve

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CD56 ANTIGEN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NESTIN; PROTEIN S 100; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TERATOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TERATOMA;

EID: 33846986371     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2006.02062.x     Document Type: Article

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