Solitary fibrous tumor of soft tissue: A report of 15 cases, including 5 malignant examples with light microscopic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural data

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1028-1037

  Nielsen, Gunnlaugur P ^a   O'Connell, John X ^b   Dickersin, G Richard ^a   Rosenberg, Andrew E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Soft tissue; Solitary fibrous tumor; Vulva

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY; VULVA TUMOR;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; AGED; BUTTOCKS; CELL NUCLEUS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, ROUGH; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030732752     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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