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Sarcomatoid carcinomas of the upper aerodigestive tracts.
Advances in anatomic pathology - 1 Sept 2000
Batsakis J G, Suarez P
Abstract excerpt
Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract continues to be one of the most difficult diagnostic challenges for surgical pathologists. Histogenesis has been settled in favor of a divergent (mesenchymal) differentiation of a carcinoma, most often a squamous cell carcinoma. Finding the carcinoma and/or its immunohistochemical marker in the metaplastic cells establishes the diagnosis. There are, however,...
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