Cellular fibrous histiocytoma of the skin: Evidence of a clonal process with different karyotype from dermatofibrosarcoma

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 314-317

  Vanni, Roberta ^b   Marras, Susanna ^c   Faa, Gavino ^c   Licheri, Sergio ^c   Daniele, Giovanni M ^c   Fletcher, Christopher D M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Istituto di Biologia Generale   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYTOGENETICS; DERMATOFIBROMA; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030942072     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199704)18:4<314::AID-GCC11>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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