Primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report

Carcinosarcoma is a rare biphasic malignancy consisting of intermixed epithelial and mesenchymal elements. Carcinosarcoma is particularly rare among children. We accepted a 7 year old patient with retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma. The tumor was totally resected and no recurrence is found 11 months aft...

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Autores principales: Xu, Feng, Huang, Yangqing, Yang, Jiamei
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21087479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-8-99
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author Xu, Feng
Huang, Yangqing
Yang, Jiamei
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Huang, Yangqing
Yang, Jiamei
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description Carcinosarcoma is a rare biphasic malignancy consisting of intermixed epithelial and mesenchymal elements. Carcinosarcoma is particularly rare among children. We accepted a 7 year old patient with retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma. The tumor was totally resected and no recurrence is found 11 months after operation. Literatures has been reviewed and there are few reports of primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in children up to date. So we report the patient's clinical character, surgical resection, pathological and immunohistochemical analysis.
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spelling pubmed-30008402010-12-11 Primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report Xu, Feng Huang, Yangqing Yang, Jiamei World J Surg Oncol Case Report Carcinosarcoma is a rare biphasic malignancy consisting of intermixed epithelial and mesenchymal elements. Carcinosarcoma is particularly rare among children. We accepted a 7 year old patient with retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma. The tumor was totally resected and no recurrence is found 11 months after operation. Literatures has been reviewed and there are few reports of primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in children up to date. So we report the patient's clinical character, surgical resection, pathological and immunohistochemical analysis. BioMed Central 2010-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3000840/ /pubmed/21087479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-8-99 Text en Copyright ©2010 Xu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report
title Primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report
title_full Primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report
title_fullStr Primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report
title_short Primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report
title_sort primary retroperitoneal carcinosarcoma in a child: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21087479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-8-99
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