Uterine perivascular epitheloid cell tumor (PEComa) with CD117 and PNL2 positivity and entrapped endometriotic glands, mimicking sex-cordlike differentiation

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 216-218

  Horn, Lars Christian ^a   Einenkel, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELAN A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY PNL2; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOPLASM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL TUMOR; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIOID CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; MESENCHYME CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAINING; UTERINE PERIVASCULAR EPITHELOID CELL TUMOR; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS TUMOR;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA-SPECIFIC ANTIGENS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERIVASCULAR EPITHELIOID CELL NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEX CORD-GONADAL STROMAL TUMORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955924601     PISSN: 10929134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2010.10.007     Document Type: Letter

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