Giant plexiform schwannoma: A report of two cases with soft tissue and visceral involvement

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1075-1081

  Hirose, Takanori ^a,b   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^b   Sano, Toshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Soft tissue; Solitary plexiform schwannoma; Viscera

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HIP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VISCERA;

EID: 0030700011     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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