Trophoblastic vasculogenic mimicry in gestational choriocarcinoma

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 646-652

  Shih, Ie Ming ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

choriocarcinoma; gestational; trophoblastic

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIBODY;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL CHORIOCARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, CD34; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHORIOCARCINOMA; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR, PLACENTAL SITE; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955602691     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2010.231     Document Type: Article

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