Uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumors: An ultrastructural analysis of 13 cases

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-24

  Gupta, Mamta ^a   De Leval, Laurence ^b   Selig, Martin ^c   Oliva, Esther ^c   Nielsen, G Petur ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Ovary; Sex cord tumors; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; KERATIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; DESMOSOME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; OVARY TUMOR; SEX CORD TUMOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UTERUS CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASMIC STRUCTURES; DESMOSOMES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SEX CORD-GONADAL STROMAL TUMORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

MYOIDA;

EID: 75149179187     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913120903506603     Document Type: Article

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