Hypodermal decidualized endometrioma with aberrant cytokeratin expression. A lesion mimicking malignancy

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Val Bernal, José Fernando ^a   Val, Daniel ^b   Gómez Aguado, Fernando ^b   Corcuera, María Teresa ^b   Garijo, María Francisca ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

decidua cell; decidualized endometrioma; deciduoid mesothelioma; endometriosis; epithelioid trophoblastic tumor; trophoblastic neoplasia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CA 15-3 ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN AE1; CYTOKERATIN AE3; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; INHIBIN A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DECIDUALIZED ENDOMETRIOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCAR; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TUMOR; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL TROPHOBLASTIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MESOTHELIOMA; PREGNANCY; SKIN;

EID: 79959826060     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: 15330311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DAD.0b013e3181f704f6     Document Type: Article

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