Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the uterine cervix: A report of 14 cases and a discussion of its unusual clinicopathological associations

Modern Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 602-614

  Dehner, Louis P ^a   Jarzembowski, Jason A ^b   Hill, D Ashley ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adenosarcoma; DICER1; embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma; pleuropulmonary blastoma; Sertoli Leydig cell tumor; uterine cervix

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DICER; VINCRISTINE;

ADENOSARCOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANDROBLASTOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CARTILAGE; CHILD; EMBRYONAL RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; ENDOMETRIUM SARCOMA; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HIRSUTISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG BLASTOMA; MIXED MULLERIAN TUMOR; MYOBLAST; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; OVARY TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX CORD TUMOR; STROMA; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; THYROIDECTOMY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84859424582     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.185     Document Type: Article

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