Small round blue cell tumours of childhood
MERLiN
Gives the differential when biopsy shows sheets of primitive small blue cells; immunohistochemistry then separates them.
Wilms tumour and retinoblastoma are also small blue cell tumours and are not in the list.
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MERLiN. It helps you recall: Small round blue cell tumours of childhood.
Medulloblastoma
Ewing sarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
M: Medulloblastoma; E: Ewing sarcoma; R: Rhabdomyosarcoma; L: Lymphoma; N: Neuroblastoma.
It belongs to Neoplasia in Pathology.
Wilms tumour and retinoblastoma are also small blue cell tumours and are not in the list.
Gives the differential when biopsy shows sheets of primitive small blue cells; immunohistochemistry then separates them.
Say it aloud, write it from memory tomorrow, then again in a week. Then test yourself on a Pathology question about Neoplasia.
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