Primary peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor/Ewing's tumor of the testis in a 46-year-old man-differential diagnosis and review of the literature

Human Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 893-897

  Heikaus, Sebastian ^a   Schaefer, Karl Ludwig ^a   Eucker, Jan ^b   Hogrebe, Esther ^a   Danebrock, Raihanatou ^a   Wai, Daniel H ^c   Krenn, Veit ^d   Gabbert, Helmut E ^a   Poremba, Christopher ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^d Center of Histopathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ewing's tumor; pPNET; Testis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; IRINOTECAN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TOPOTECAN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EWING SARCOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; ORCHIECTOMY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS TUMOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE, PERIPHERAL; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67349277119     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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