Aggressive Metastatic GATA3-Positive Sarcomatoid Carcinoma with Rapid Progression and Invasion of the Liver
Irfan Shaukat1, Charles Padgett2, Maimoona Inayat1
1Department of Medicine, Med Star Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21234, USA.
Case Reports in Oncological Medicine
|October 13, 2018
Abstract:
Objective. GATA3-positive sarcomatoid carcinoma has never been documented in the past. It is a case of aggressive tumor, positive for GATA3, which should be further studied for its prognostic and therapeutic significance.
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