Anaplastic meningioma with extensive single-cell infiltration: A potential role for epithelial-mesenchymal transformation in the progression of a meningothelial tumour?

Histopathology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1111-1114

  Celebre, Angela ^a   Wu, Megan Y ^b   Danielson, Brett ^a   Cohen, Sandra ^c   Munoz, David ^a,c,d   Das, Sunit ^b,c,d   Karamchandani, Jason ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ANAPLASTIC MENINGIOMA; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CELL ADHESION; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL INFILTRATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LETTER; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MESENCHYME CELL; MITOSIS RATE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 84877890206     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/his.12121     Document Type: Letter

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