Malignant glomus tumor: A case report and review of the literature

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1096-1103

  Hiruta, Nobuyuki ^a   Kameda, Noriaki ^a   Tokudome, Takahiro ^a   Tsuchiya, Kazuaki ^b   Nonaka, Hiroko ^c   Hatori, Tsutomu ^c   Akima, Michio ^c   Miura, Myota ^c  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SAKURA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glomus tumor; Malignant soft tissue tumor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN; DESMIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE LESION; CANCER INVASION; CAROTID BODY; CASE REPORT; CELL JUNCTION; GLOMUS TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYALGIA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ADULT; CYTOPLASM; FEMORAL NEOPLASMS; GLOMUS TUMOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0030987630     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199709000-00015     Document Type: Article

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