Sacrococcygeal chordoma with a malignant spindle cell component. A case report with a review of literature;Ein sakrokokzygeales chordom mit maligner Spindelzellkomponente. Fallbericht und Literaturuberblick

Pathologe

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 395-400

  Woenckhaus, J ^a,c   Benedix, P ^b   Holotiuk, O ^a   Riedel, H ^a   Justus, J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITAL DRESDEN FRIEDRICHSTADT   (Germany)

^b Abteilung fur Chirurgie   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

chordoma; dedifferentiated chordoma; malignant fibrous histiocytoma; malignant spindle cell component

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; SACRUM; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHORDOMA; COCCYX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; KERATINS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; SACRUM; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030752139     PISSN: 01728113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002920050232     Document Type: Article

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