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Metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma with positive expression of thyroid transcription factor-1--a case report
Adam Sierakowski1, Khalid Al-Janabi, Helena van Dam
1St. Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom. adamsiera@yahoo.co.uk
The American Journal of Dermatopathology
|May 23, 2009
Abstract:
We report on a case of metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma in a 74-year-old patient with positive staining for thyroid transcription factor-1. This represents a new immunohistochemical staining pattern for Merkel cell carcinoma and has implications regarding the accurate diagnosis of this tumor type.
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