Dedifferentiated liposarcoma with peculiar meningothelial-like whorling and metaplastic bone formation

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 278-284

  Song, Joon Seon ^a,b   Gardner, Jerad M ^a   Tarrant, William P ^a   Shen, Steven ^a   Ayala, Alberto G ^a   Yu, Eunsil ^b   Ro, Jae Y ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atypical lipomatous tumor well differentiated liposarcoma; Dedifferentiated liposarcoma; Meningothelial whorling; Metaplastic bone; Paraganglioma

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; VIMENTIN;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEDIFFERENTIATED LIPOSARCOMA; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INGUINAL REGION; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MYXOMA; ORCHIECTOMY; PARAGANGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD56; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOGENESIS; PARAGANGLIOMA; S100 PROTEINS; SARCOMA; VIMENTIN;

EID: 67650094007     PISSN: 10929134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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