Problems in mesothelioma diagnosis
| Autor: | Heather Roche, Bruce Addis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Mesothelioma
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Histology business.industry Pleural Neoplasms Connective tissue General Medicine respiratory system medicine.disease Immunohistochemistry respiratory tract diseases Pathology and Forensic Medicine Diagnosis Differential medicine.anatomical_structure medicine Humans Differential diagnosis business neoplasms |
| Zdroj: | Histopathology. 54(1) |
| ISSN: | 1365-2559 |
| Popis: | Many centres are now seeing increasing numbers of patients with malignant mesothelioma. This presents pathologists involved in making the diagnosis with a number of problems, which can be divided into those encountered in making the distinction between mesothelioma and benign changes and those experienced in separating mesotheliomas from other types of epithelial and connective tissue tumours. Immunohistochemistry plays a major role in helping to make the diagnosis, but it should be interpreted with due regard to the clinical setting and radiological features, and with a knowledge of the wide morphological variations seen in mesothelioma. This review identifies some of these problems and addresses the uses and limitations of immunohistochemistry in different situations. It includes a discussion of some of the less common variants of mesothelioma and other pleural-based tumours that enter into the differential diagnosis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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