Letter to the Editor
Metastatic mature teratoma to the neck with respiratory-type epithelium: a case requiring evidence of chromosome 12p overrepresentation to differentiate malignant and benign diagnoses
Miroslav Sekulic,
Michelle Dolan,
Paari Murugan,
Faqian Li,
Miroslav Sekulic
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Search for more papers by this authorMichelle Dolan
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Search for more papers by this authorPaari Murugan
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Search for more papers by this authorFaqian Li
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Search for more papers by this authorMiroslav Sekulic,
Michelle Dolan,
Paari Murugan,
Faqian Li,
Miroslav Sekulic
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Search for more papers by this authorMichelle Dolan
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Search for more papers by this authorPaari Murugan
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Search for more papers by this authorFaqian Li
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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