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Trisomy 8 as the only chromosome change in an epithelioid smooth muscle tumor

1991; Wiley; Volume: 3; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/gcc.2870030311

1098-2264

Paola Dal Cin, Ivo De Wever, Raymond Aerts, Boudewijn Van Damme, Herman Van den Berghe,

Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research

Abstract Epithelioid smooth muscle tumor is a rare low grade malignancy that usually occurs in the gastrointestinal tract. No chromosome studies of this tumor have been reported so far. We found trisomy 8 as the sole chromosome anomaly in a large hepatic epithelioid smooth muscle tumor.