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Cancerous 'floater': a lesson learned about tissue identity testing, endometrial cancer and microsatellite instability.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Sept 2013
Bossuyt Veerle, Buza Natalia, Ngo Nhu T, Much Melissa A, Asis Maria C, Schwartz Peter E, Hui Pei
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A 46-year-old woman presented with endometrial cells on a pap smear and underwent endometrial curettage. The specimen revealed secretory endometrium and a possible endometrial polyp. In addition, a single 4 mm fragment of well-differentiated adenocarcinoma was found. Tissue identity DNA genotyping was performed and the adenocarcinoma tissue fragment showed a drastically different allelic pattern from that of the...
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