Superficial small round-cell tumors with special reference to the Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors and the spectrum of differential diagnosis

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 85-94

  Machado, Isidro ^a   Traves, Victor ^a   Cruz, Julia ^a   Llombart, Beatriz ^a   Navarro, Samuel ^b   Llombart Bosch, Antonio ^b  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ewing's sarcoma; mesenchymal tumor; Superficial

Indexed keywords

CALPONIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CAVEOLIN 1; CD30 ANTIGEN; CD38 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD99 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN A; CYTOKERATIN 20; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; MELAN A; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; SYNDECAN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INFILTRATION; CUTANEOUS EPITHELIOID SARCOMA; CUTANEOUS MYOEPITHELIAL CARCINOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EWING SARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHABDOID TUMOR; ROUND CELL MELANOMA; SKIN METASTASIS; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SMALL CELL SARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

BONE NEOPLASMS; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MESODERM; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA, EWING; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84872411867     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: 19301111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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