Differentiated rhabdomyomatous tumors after chemotherapy for metastatic testicular germ-cell tumors: A clinicopathological study of seven cases mandating separation from rhabdomyosarcoma

Modern Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1361-1366

  Clevenger, Jessica A ^a   Foster, Richard S ^a   Ulbright, Thomas M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Retroperitoneum; Rhabdomyomatous tumor; Rhabdomyosarcoma; Teratoma; Testicular germ cell tumor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CISPLATIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EMBRYONAL RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; METASTASIS; MITOSIS RATE; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOPLASM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TESTIS TERATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; ORCHIECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, EMBRYONAL; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349659676     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2009.108     Document Type: Article

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