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Abstract
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).
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- Neoplasms, Perivascular Epithelioid Cell
- PEComa
- PEComas
- Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasm
- Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumor
- Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumors
- CCMMT
- Clear-Cell Myomelanocytic Tumor
- Clear-Cell Myomelanocytic Tumors
- Clear-Cell Sugar Tumor
- Clear-Cell Sugar Tumors
- Clear Cell Myomelanocytic Tumor
- Clear Cell Myomelanocytic Tumors
- Clear Cell Sugar Tumor
- Clear Cell Sugar Tumors
- Myomelanocytic Tumor, Clear-Cell
- Myomelanocytic Tumors, Clear-Cell
- Sugar Tumor, Clear-Cell
- Sugar Tumors, Clear-Cell
- Tumor, Clear-Cell Myomelanocytic
- Tumor, Clear-Cell Sugar
- Tumors, Clear-Cell Myomelanocytic
- Tumors, Clear-Cell Sugar
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, blood supply, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, chemistry, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, secondary, surgery, therapy, ultrastructure, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2009
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- Epithelioid Cells/pathology (1999-2008)
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- National Library of Medicine. Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054973. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054973
- Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perivascular_epithelioid_cell_tumour
- Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7118906