Mediastinal germ cell tumors with an angiosarcomatous component: a report of 12 cases

Human Pathology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 832-837

  Contreras, Alejandro Luiña ^a   Punar, Metin ^a   Tamboli, Pheroze ^a   Tu, Shi Ming ^a   Pisters, Louis ^a   Moran, Cesar ^a   Czerniak, Bogdan A ^a   Guo, Charles C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Germ cell tumor; Mediastinum; Sarcomatoid transformation

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN;

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SEMINOMA; TERATOMA; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951939409     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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