Malignant tumor of the retinal pigment epithelium with extraocular extension in a phthisical eye

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 234, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Loeffler, Karin U ^a   Kivelä, Tero ^b   Borgmann, Hans ^c   Witschel, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Johanniter Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CHOROID; DESMOSOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENUCLEATION; EYE CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METAPLASIA; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS RATE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CELL; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD57; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BLINDNESS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EYE ENUCLEATION; EYE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; S100 PROTEINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029843889     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02343051     Document Type: Article

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