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Demonstration of cytokeratins and an epithelial membrane antigen in chondroid chordoma
Author(s) -
Salisbury Jonathan R.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
the journal of pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.964
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1096-9896
pISSN - 0022-3417
DOI - 10.1002/path.1711530106
Subject(s) - chordoma , chondrosarcoma , cytokeratin , pathology , stain , immunohistochemistry , biology , medicine , staining
Chondroid chordomas are shown to possess cytokeratins and to stain with HMFG‐2 as do ordinary chordomas. These findings support the concepts that these neoplasma are a variant of chordoma and that they are unrelated to myxoid chondrosarcoma.