Bowel loop in an ovarian tumor: Grossly visible, completely developed intestinal loop in mature cystic teratoma of malignant mixed germ cell tumor

Pathology International

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 479-481

  Kwon, Mi Jung ^a   Nam, Eun Sook ^a,b   Cho, Seong Jin ^a   Shin, Hyung Sik ^a   Na, Yeon Sik ^b   Chang, Jae Hyuk ^b   Kim, In Sun ^c  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (South Korea)

^b Hallym University   (South Korea)

^c College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cystic teratoma; Gastrointestinal tract; Germ cell tumor; Yolk sac tumor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADNEXECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE LOOP; MESENTERY; MICROSCOPY; OVARIAN BLEEDING; OVARY HYPERTROPHY; OVARY TERATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE NECROSIS; VASCULARIZATION; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, LARGE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA;

EID: 67650786755     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2009.02396.x     Document Type: Article

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