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Liquid Biopsy in Rare Cancers: Lessons from Hemangiopericytoma.
Analytical cellular pathology (Amsterdam) - 1 Jan 2018
Nicolazzo Chiara, Colangelo Luciano, Corsi Alessandro, Carpino Guido, Gradilone Angela, Sonato Chiara, Raimondi Cristina, Gaudio Eugenio, Gazzaniga Paola, Gianni Walter
Abstract excerpt
Hemangiopericytoma (HPT) is a rare mesenchymal tumor of fibroblastic type and for its rarity is poorly studied. The most common sites of metastatic disease in patients with intracranial HPT are the bone, liver, and lung, suggestive for an hematogenous dissemination; for this reason, we investigated, for the first time, the presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in hemangiopericytoma patient by CellSearch® and...
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