Intracytoplasmic lipid accumulation in apocrine carcinoma of the breast evaluated with adipophilin immunoreactivity: A possible link between apocrine carcinoma and lipid-rich carcinoma

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 861-867

  Moritani, Suzuko ^a   Ichihara, Shu ^a   Hasegawa, Masaki ^a   Endo, Tokiko ^b   Oiwa, Mikinao ^b   Shiraiwa, Misaki ^b   Nishida, Chikako ^b   Morita, Takako ^b   Sato, Yasuyuki ^a   Hayashi, Takako ^a   Kato, Aya ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGOYA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Department of Advanced Diagnosis   (Japan)

Author keywords

adipophilin; apocrine carcinoma; intracytoplasmic lipid; lipidrich carcinoma; paraffin sections

Indexed keywords

ADFP PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CELL INCLUSION; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LIPID METABOLISM; LUNG CARCINOMA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SWEAT GLAND TUMOR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; LIPID METABOLISM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SWEAT GLAND NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79957974072     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31821a7f3e     Document Type: Article

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