Angiomyolipoma of the liver: A reappraisal of morphological features and delineation of new characteristic histological features from the clinicopathological findings of 55 tumours in 47 patients

Histopathology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 863-880

  Nonomura, Akitaka ^a   Enomoto, Yasunori ^a   Takeda, Maiko ^a   Takano, Masato ^a   Morita, Kohei ^a   Kasai, Takahiko ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiomyolipoma; Histological diversity; HMB 45; Liver; PEComa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; LIVER TUMOR; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MELANOMA-SPECIFIC ANTIGENS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 84868157973     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2012.04306.x     Document Type: Article

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