ALK Rearrangement and Overexpression in an Unusual Cutaneous Epithelioid Tumor With a Peculiar Whorled "Perineurioma-like" Growth Pattern: Epithelioid Fibrous Histiocytoma

Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2017 Jul;25(6):e46-e48. doi: 10.1097/PAI.0000000000000418.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Epithelioid Cells / pathology*
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic*
  • Gene Rearrangement / genetics
  • Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous* / diagnosis
  • Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous* / genetics
  • Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous* / pathology
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • In Situ Hybridization
  • Middle Aged
  • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / chemistry
  • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / genetics*
  • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / metabolism
  • Skin Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Skin Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology*

Substances

  • ALK protein, human
  • Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase
  • Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases