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Benign and Malignant Brenner Tumors Show an Absence of TERT Promoter Mutations That Are Commonly Present in Urothelial Carcinoma.
The American journal of surgical pathology - 1 Sept 2016
Khani Francesca, Diolombi Mairo L, Khattar Pallavi, Huang Weihua, Fallon John T, Epstein Jonathan I, Zhong Minghao
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Brenner tumors are uncommon ovarian neoplasms, which have morphologic and immunophenotypical features of transitional cell (urothelial) differentiation. The origin of Brenner tumors is perplexing, but they are believed to arise from transitional cell metaplasia occurring within the ovary and/or fallopian tube, although it is controversial whether this metaplasia is truly along transitional cell lines. Recently,...
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