Primary vulvar Ewing's sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor in a post-menopausal woman: A case report

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 206, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 476-479

  Boldorini, Renzo ^a   Riboni, Francesca ^a   Cristina, Silvia ^b   Allegrini, Sara ^a   Valentini, Stefano ^b   Muscarà, Maurizio ^b   Ruspa, Giovanni ^b  

^a Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Maggiore della Carità   (Italy)

^b SS Trinità Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ewing sarcoma peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Vulva

Indexed keywords

CD99 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN; CYTOKERATIN 20; CYTOKERATIN 7; CYTOKERATIN AE1; CYTOKERATIN AE3; DESMIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; PROTEIN EWSR1; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUMOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CALMODULIN BINDING PROTEIN; CD99 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; EWSR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; EWING SARCOMA; EXCISION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS RATE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROFILAMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIMARY TUMOR; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VULVA; VULVA TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE, PERIPHERAL; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA, EWING; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE, PERIPHERAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; RADIOTHERAPY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; VULVAR NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA, EWING;

EID: 77954034137     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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