The many faces of atypical Ewing's sarcoma. A true entity mimicking sarcomas, carcinomas and lymphomas

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 458, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-290

  Machado, Isidro ^a   Noguera, Rosa ^a   Mateos, Eduardo Alcaraz ^b   Calabuig Fariñas, Silvia ^a   López, F Ignacio Aranda ^b   Martínez, Antonio ^c   Navarro, Samuel ^a   Llombart Bosch, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Alicante General Hospital   (Spain)

^c General Hospital Torrevieja   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atypical; Differential diagnosis; ESFT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMALL CELL SARCOMA; BONE TUMOR; CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

CALMODULIN BINDING PROTEIN; EWS FLI1 FUSION PROTEIN; EWS-FLI1 FUSION PROTEIN; EWSR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLI 1; TUMOR MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CARCINOMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-FLI-1; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954427213     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-010-1023-4     Document Type: Article

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