Metastatic retinoblastoma presenting as a left shoulder soft tissue mass: FNA findings and review of the literature

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 440-446

  Castelino Prabhu, Shobha ^a   Stoll, Lisa Marie ^a   Li, Qing Kay ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytology; Fine needle aspiration; Metastatic retinoblastoma; Soft tissue mass

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METASTASIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SHOULDER; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SHOULDER; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 77952851813     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21252     Document Type: Article

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