Liposarcomas of the posterior mediastinum: Clinicopathologic study of 18 cases

Modern Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 721-731

  Ortega, Pablo ^a   Suster, David ^a   Falconieri, Giovanni ^b   Zambrano, Eduardo ^a   Moran, Cesar A ^c   Morrison, Carl ^d   Suster, Saul ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Policlinica di Cattinara   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 153; PROTEIN MDM2; PROTEIN S 100; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADIPOCYTE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CELL COMPONENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; CYTOPLASM; DEDIFFERENTIATED LIPOSARCOMA; DYSPHAGIA; EXCISION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPOLEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS RATE; MYXOSARCOMA; PATHOLOGY; PLASMA CELL; PLEOMORPHIC LIPOSARCOMA; POSTERIOR MEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPINDLE CELL; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WELL DIFFERENTIATED LIPOSARCOMA; GENETICS; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; METABOLISM; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 84928828571     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2014.152     Document Type: Article

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