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Neoplasms > Neoplasms by Histologic Type > Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue > Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms

Preferred term

Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Neoplasms, Perivascular Epithelioid Cell
  • PEComa
  • PEComas
  • Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasm
  • Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumor
  • Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumors

Scope note

  • A family of mesenchymal tumors composed of histologically and immunohistochemically distinctive perivascular epithelioid cells. These cells do not have a normal anatomic homolog. (From Fletcher CDM, et. al., World Health Organization Classification of Tumors: Pathology and Genetics of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone, 2002).

History note

  • 2009

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054973

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