Medulloblastoma with myogenic differentiation showing double immunopositivity for synaptophysin and myoglobin

Pathology International

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 255-260

  Kido, Mizue ^b   Ueno, Masaki ^a,b   Onodera, Masayuki ^b   Matsumoto, Kouichi ^b   Imai, Tadashi ^b   Haba, Reiji ^b   Tamiya, Takashi ^b   Huang, Cheng Long ^a   Sakamoto, Haruhiko ^b  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Pathology and Host Defense ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Desmin; Medulloblastoma; Medullomyoblastoma; Myoglobin; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DESMIN; ETOPOSIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IFOSFAMIDE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MYOGLOBIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VINCRISTINE;

ANAMNESIS; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MEDULLOMYOBLASTOMA; MITOSIS; MYOBLAST; NEUROFILAMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD; SPINDLE CELL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MUSCLE CELLS; MYOGLOBIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 63849165385     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2009.02360.x     Document Type: Article

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