PEComas: a review with emphasis on cutaneous lesions

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 123-130

  Walsh, Sarah N ^a   Sangüeza, Omar P ^b  

^a Cutaneous Pathology   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiomyolipoma; Clear cell sugar tumor; Lymphangioleiomyoma; PEComa; Perivascular epithelioid cell; Skin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA2B INTERFERON; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DACARBAZINE; DESMIN; IMATINIB; RAPAMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLEAR CELL SUGAR TUMOR; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KIDNEY TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIVASCULAR EPITHELIOID CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYOMA; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN SURGERY; SPINDLE CELL; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ACTINS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; DESMIN; EPITHELIOID CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PERIVASCULAR EPITHELIOID CELL NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 71749119269     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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