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Expression of CD44 and CD29 by PEComa cells suggests their possible origin of mesenchymal stem cells.

Int J Clin Exp Pathol

October 2016

Department of Pathology and Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Endemic and Ethnic Diseases (Ministry of Education), Shihezi University School of Medicine 59 North 2nd Road, Shihezi 832002, Xinjiang, China.

Background: Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) is a rare mesenchymal tumor composed of histologically and immunohistochemically distinctive perivascular epithelioid cells. The perivascular epithelioid cell (PEC) co-expresses melanocytic and muscle markers. Since no normal counterpart to the PEC has ever been identified in any normal tissue, the cell origin of these tumors is still uncertain.

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