Multiple endometrial stromal nodules with sparce cysts and glands in the lung -A nodular variation of endometriosis that may mimic metastases of sarcoma

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-64

  Huber, Monika ^a   Wierrani, Franz ^b   Böhm, Gerhard ^a   Hauck, Herwig ^c   Lintner, Felix ^a   Grünberger, Werner ^b  

^a Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology   (Austria)

^b KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^c Pulmologisches Zentrum   (Austria)

Author keywords

Endometrial stromal nodule; Endometriosis; Low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma; Lung

Indexed keywords

DNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM SARCOMA; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMAN; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG DISEASE; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA TUMOR; PLOIDY; STROMA CELL;

ADULT; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUNG DISEASES; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PLOIDIES; SARCOMA, ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL; STROMAL CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032612639     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0344-0338(99)80099-5     Document Type: Article

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