Vulvar Merkel cell tumor with glandular and squamous differentiation

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 292-297

  Scurry, James ^a   Brand, Alison ^a   Planner, Robert ^a   Dowling, John ^b   Rode, Jurgen ^c  

^a MERCY HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL; STEM CELL; VULVA TUMOR; VULVECTOMY;

EID: 0030220879     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1996.0229     Document Type: Article

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