Diagnostic implication of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus with special reference to the distinction between spindle cell hemangioendothelioma and Kaposi's sarcoma

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-76

  Hisaoka, Masanori ^a   Hashimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Iwamasa, Teruo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; VASCULAR LESION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031921326     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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