Glioblastoma with adipocyte-like tumor cell differentiation - Histological and molecular features of a rare differentiation pattern

Brain Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 431-438

  Rickert, Christian H ^b,c   Riemenschneider, Markus J ^a   Schachenmayr, Walter ^d   Richter, Hans Peter ^e   Bockhorn, Jürgen ^f   Reifenberger, Guido ^a   Paulus, Werner ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^f Hospital Hohe Warte   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glioblastoma; Immunohistochemistry; Lipidization; Lipomatous metaplasia; Molecular genetics

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN MDM2; PROTEIN P53;

ADIPOCYTE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME LOSS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADIPOCYTES; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 66949170225     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: 17503639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2008.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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