Proximal-type epithelioid sarcoma in a 36-year-old man: Closer immunoelectron-microscopic resemblance of the tumor cells to epithelial cells than to mesenchymal cells

Pathology International

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 616-622

  Masunaga, Atsuko ^a   Ikeda, Katsuhide ^a   Suzuki, Takao ^a   Fukumori, Nobutaka ^b   Ishibashi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Tajiri, Takuma ^a   Ogata, Akio ^b   Midorikawa, Takemasa ^a   Mitsuya, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin; Fetal tissue; Immunoelectron microscopy; p53; Proximal type epithelioid sarcoma; WAF1

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIOID SARCOMA; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXON; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; MESOTHELIUM; NOTOCHORD; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TONOFILAMENT; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PERINEUM; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4344690430     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2004.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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