Crystal-deficient alveolar soft-part sarcoma with cutaneous involvement: A case report

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 272-277

  Kacerovska, Denisa ^a   Michal, Michal ^b   Nemcova, Jana ^a   Vanecek, Tomas ^a   Kreuzberg, Boris ^a   Mrazkova, Petra ^a   Koudela, Karel ^a   Kazakov, Dmitry V ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b BIOPTICAL LABORATORY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alveolar soft part sarcoma; ASPL TFE3 gene fusion; Crystals; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FUSION GENE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; CELL GRANULE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEG; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ASPSCR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; TFE3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SARCOMA, ALVEOLAR SOFT PART; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66149156878     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DAD.0b013e31819d097a     Document Type: Article

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