Recurrent Hyalinizing Clear Cell Carcinoma of the Base of Tongue with High-Grade Transformation and EWSR1 Gene Rearrangement by FISH

Head and Neck Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-394

  Jin, Rongyu ^a   Craddock, Kenneth J ^a   Irish, Jonathan C ^b   Perez Ordonez, Bayardo ^a   Weinreb, Ilan ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dedifferentiation; EWSR1; High grade transformation; Hyalinizing clear cell carcinoma; Salivary

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN BINDING PROTEIN; EWSR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HYALIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; TONGUE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; HYALIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SALIVARY GLAND NEOPLASMS; TONGUE;

EID: 84865539343     PISSN: 1936055X     EISSN: 19360568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12105-012-0338-7     Document Type: Article

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