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carcinosarcoma
(redirected from carcinosarcomas)

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Noun1.carcinosarcoma - a malignant neoplasm composed of carcinoma and sarcoma extensively intermixed
malignant neoplasm, malignant tumor, metastatic tumor - a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body


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10,43) The notion that the sarcomatous element represents mesenchymal metaplasia analogous to that seen in carcinosarcomas elsewhere in the body comes from data demonstrating the presence of 1 or more identical genetic aberrations in both elements from individual tumors; the latter supports a monoclonal process rather than a collision tumor.
1-6) True carcinosarcomas of the larynx and the hypopharynx represent less than 1% of all malignant neoplasms in this area.
1-15) All of these cutaneous carcinosarcomas had developed in patients who were older than 40 years, and most of them behaved in a manner that was clinically less aggressive than the progression of carcinosarcomas at other sites.
 
 
 
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