"Sarcoma, Clear Cell" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A sarcoma of young, often female, adults of the lower extremities and acral regions, intimately bound to tendons as circumscribed but unencapsulated melanin-bearing tumors of neuroectodermal origin. An ultrastructural finding simulates flattened and curved barrel staves, corresponding to the internal structures of premelanosomes. There is a 45-60% mortality in clear cell sarcoma. (Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
| Descriptor ID |
D018227
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.450.565.800 C04.557.450.795.800
|
| Concept/Terms |
Sarcoma, Clear Cell- Sarcoma, Clear Cell
- Clear Cell Sarcoma
- Clear Cell Sarcomas
- Sarcomas, Clear Cell
- Melanoma, Malignant, of Soft Parts
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Sarcoma, Clear Cell".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Sarcoma, Clear Cell".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sarcoma, Clear Cell" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sarcoma, Clear Cell" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Sarcoma, Clear Cell" by people in Profiles.