Endolymphatic sac tumor (aggressive papillary tumor of middle ear and temporal bone). Report of two cases with analysis of the VHL gene

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 204, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 599-606

  Skalova, A ^a   Sima R ^b   Bohus P ^c   Curik R ^d   Lukas J ^e   Michal, M ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Medical Faculty of Luis Pasteur   (Slovakia)

^d BIOPTICAL LABORATORY   (Czech Republic)

^e NA HOMOLCE HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aggressive papillary middle ear tumor; Endolymphatic sac tumor; Heffner tumor; VHL gene analysis; von Hippel Lindau disease

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 5; CYTOKERATIN 6; CYTOKERATIN 7; CYTOKERATIN 8; CYTOKERATIN AE1; CYTOKERATIN AE3; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; LEUCINE; PROTEIN S 100; SERINE; THREONINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRON; MIDDLE EAR TUMOR; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL BONE TUMOR; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EAR NEOPLASMS; EAR, MIDDLE; ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRONS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL BONE; VON HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE; VON HIPPEL-LINDAU TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

EID: 47149114775     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2008.01.016     Document Type: Article

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