Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma including cases with pleomorphic features analysed by fluorescence in situ hybridisation

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-128

  Matsumura, T ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^a   Tochigi, N ^b   Wada, T ^a   Yamashita, T ^a   Hasegawa, T ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; CD99 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOFIBROMA; EWSR1 GENE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUS GENE; FUSION GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN FUS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77349086914     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2009.072256     Document Type: Article

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