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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

- benign tumors

  • adenomas

- malignant tumors

Classification

-  epithelial tumors

- mesenchymal tumors

  • 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

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