Clonal evidence for the progression of a testicular germ cell tumor to angiosarcoma

Human Pathology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-144

  Idrees, Muhammad T ^a   Kuhar, Matthew ^a   Ulbright, Thomas M ^a   Zhang, Shaobo ^a   Agaram, Narsimhan ^a   Wang, Mingsheng ^a   Grignon, David J ^a   Eble, John N ^a   Cheng, Liang ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Chemotherapy; Clonality; Germs cell tumors; Loss of heterozygosity; Teratoma; Testis

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 12P; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE MARKER; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; ISOCHROMOSOME; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; MICRODISSECTION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ORCHIECTOMY; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; TERATOMA;

CLONE CELLS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MICRODISSECTION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 71049131598     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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