Primary mixed squamous carcinoma and osteosarcoma (carcinosarcomas) of the lung have a CGH mapping similar to primitive squamous carcinomas and osteosarcomas

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 151-158

  Pardo, Javier ^a   Aisa, Gregorio ^a   De Alava, Enrique ^a   Sola, Jesús J ^a   Panizo, Angel ^a   Rodríguez Spiteri, Natalia ^a   García, Juan L ^a   Torre, Wenceslao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carcinosarcoma; CGH; Immunohistochemistry; Lung; Osteosarcoma; Squamous carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN P63; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOSARCOMA; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME 8Q; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; LUNG TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOSARCOMA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OSTEOSARCOMA; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 54049134851     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PDM.0b013e31815d05b3     Document Type: Article

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