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tumors
Thursday 4 March 2004
solid tumors, human tumors, solid tumor; neoplasia; neoplasm; neoplasms
See also
diagnosis of tumors / tumor diagnosis / tumoral diagnosis
tumoral localization
Tumoral types
Classification
- benign epithelial tumors
- malignant epithelial tumors : carcinomas
- intra-epithelial proliferations / in situ carcinomas
- invasive carcinomas
- benign mesenchymal tumors
- malignant mesenchymal tumors ( sarcomas )
blastemal tumors (embryonic tumors or blastomas )
melanocytic tumors
germ cell tumors
cerebral tumors
hematopietic tumors and lymphoid tumors
- leukemias
- lymphoid neoplasms (lymphomas )
Diagnosis : tumoral diagnosis according to :
tumoral morphology
tumoral appearance
According to tumoral architecture - Examples
lobular tumors (lobular pattern - lobular architecture )
trabecular tumors (trabecular pattern - trabecular architecture )
papillary tumors (papillary pattern - papillary architecture )
acinous tumors (acinous pattern - acinous architecture )
compact tumors (compact pattern - compact architecture )
trabecular tumors (trabecular pattern - trabecular architecture )
According to cell appearance
fusiform cell tumors
small cell tumors
round cell tumors
signet ring cell tumors
clear cell tumors
Features
tumoral vascularization (tumor vascularization )
tumoral phenotype
fetal tumors and neonatal tumors
tissular specificity of tumors
tumoral cells
tumoral stroma
Miscellaneous
neonatal tumors
cystic tumors
Items
immunochemistry (IHC)
tumoral cytogenetics
tumoral molecular biology / tumoral molecular pathology
- fusion proteins / fusion genes
- loss of heterozygosity / allelotype (LOH and LOH loci )
- mutated genes
- inactivated genes
- activated genes
- underexpressed genes
- overexpressed genes
Links
Solid tumors at AGCOH (Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology)
CancerIndex
cancer-genetics.org
AFIP Atlas of Tumor Pathology, Series III
References
An update in molecular diagnostics of solid tumors. Dacic S. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2011 May;135(5):535-6. PMID: 21526951
Albertson DG, Collins C, McCormick F, Gray JW. Chromosome aberrations in solid tumors. Nat Genet. 2003 Aug;34(4):369-76. PMID: 12923544
Mitelman F, Johansson B, Mertens F. Fusion genes and rearranged genes as a linear function of chromosome aberrations in cancer. Nat Genet. 2004 Apr;36(4):331-4. PMID: 15054488
