Morphologic features of uterine leiomyomas associated with hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma syndrome: A case report

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1235-1237

  Garg, Karuna ^a   Tickoo, Satish K ^a   Soslow, Robert A ^a   Reuter, Victor E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

HLRCC; renal carcinoma; uterine leiomyomas

Indexed keywords

FUMARATE HYDRATASE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; KIDNEY TUMOR; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MUTATION; NEPHRECTOMY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUMARATE HYDRATASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MUTATION; NEPHRECTOMY; PEDIGREE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79961059884     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e318223ca01     Document Type: Article

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