Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms (definition)

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ψ	Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Neoplasms

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Definition: 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).

Examples Angiomyolipoma; Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

Other names CCMMT; Tumors, Clear-Cell Sugar; Tumors, Clear-Cell Myomelanocytic; Tumor, Clear-Cell Sugar; Tumor, Clear-Cell Myomelanocytic; Sugar Tumors, Clear-Cell; Sugar Tumor, Clear-Cell; PEComa; Myomelanocytic Tumors, Clear-Cell; Myomelanocytic Tumor, Clear-Cell; Clear-Cell Sugar Tumor; Clear-Cell Myomelanocytic Tumor; Clear Cell Sugar Tumors; Clear Cell Myomelanocytic Tumors; Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumors; Neoplasms, Perivascular Epithelioid Cell; Clear-Cell Myomelanocytic Tumors; PEComas; Clear-Cell Sugar Tumors

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