Anaplastic carcinoma in mucinous ovarian tumors: A clinicopathologic study of 34 cases emphasizing the crucial impact of stage on prognosis, their histologic spectrum, and overlap with sarcomalike mural nodules

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 383-389

  Provenza, Claudia ^a   Young, Robert H ^b   Prat, Jaime ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaplastic carcinoma; Ovarian mucinous tumor; Prognosis; Sarcomalike mural nodules; Stage

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EOSINOPHIL; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OVARY TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA;

EID: 40849150708     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181451b93     Document Type: Article

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