Gonadoblastoma and selected other aspects of gonadal pathology in young patients with disorders of sex development

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 427-440

  Ulbright, Thomas M ^a   Young, Robert H ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen insensitivity syndrome; Disorders of sex development; Gonadal dysgenesis; Gonadoblastoma; Intersex; Ovotesticular disorders

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

17BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; 5 ALPHA REDUCTASE DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLETE ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; DMRT1 GENE; DYSGENETIC TESTIS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE ADRENOGENITAL SYNDROME; FOXL2 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GONADOBLASTOMA; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MICROSCOPY; OVOTESTIS; PARTIAL ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SERTOLI CELL ADENOMA; SEX CORD TUMOR WITH ANNULAR TUBULE; SOX9 GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; TSPY GENE; WT1 GENE; Y CHROMOSOME; YOLK SAC;

EID: 84926415924     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: 19301111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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