Primitive neuroectodermal tumors in patients with testicular germ cell tumors usually resemble pediatric-type central nervous system embryonal neoplasms and lack chromosome 22 rearrangements

Modern Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 972-980

  Ulbright, Thomas M ^a   Hattab, Eyas M ^a   Zhang, Shaobo ^a   Ehrlich, Yaron ^a   Foster, Richard S ^a   Einhorn, Lawrence H ^a   Cheng, Liang ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ewing sarcoma; FISH; germ cell tumor; immunohistochemistry; primitive neuroectodermal tumor; testicular neoplasms; translocation

Indexed keywords

CD57 ANTIGEN; CD99 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CYTOKERATIN AE1; CYTOKERATIN AE3; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN INI1; PROTEIN S 100; RING FINGER PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLI 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WT1 PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROBLASTIC TUMOR; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROPIL; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSETTE FORMATION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY; TESTIS TUMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE, PERIPHERAL; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954243812     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2010.70     Document Type: Article

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