Sclerosing perineurioma: A clinicopathologic study of 19 cases of a distinctive soft tissue lesion with a predilection for the fingers and palms of young adults

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1433-1442

  Fetsch, John F ^a   Miettinen, Markku ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Immunohistochemistry; Nerve sheath tumor; Perineurial cell; Perineurioma; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; PERINEURIUM; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CELL DIVISION; CHILD; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SCLEROSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030660483     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199712000-00005     Document Type: Article

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