Two cases of breast carcinoma with osteoclastic giant cells: Are the osteoclastic giant cells pro-tumoural differentiation of macrophages?

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Shishido Hara, Yukiko ^a   Kurata, Atsushi ^a   Fujiwara, Masachika ^a   Itoh, Hiroki ^a   Imoto, Shigeru ^a   Kamma, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOSARCOMA; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; MASTECTOMY; MICROVASCULATURE; OSTEOCLAST; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, GIANT CELL; CARCINOSARCOMA; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MASTECTOMY; MICROVESSELS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OSTEOCLASTS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77955793020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-5-55     Document Type: Article

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