Solitary form of infantile myofibromatosis: A histologic, immunohistochemical, and electronmicroscopic study of a regressing tumor over a 20-month period

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 375-380

  Iijima, Shigeruko ^a,b   Suzuki, Ritsuko ^a   Otsuka, Fujio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Mito Saiseikai General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopic study; Immunohistochemical study; Infantile myofibromatosis; Regressing tumor Pathomechanism; Solitary form

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT DISEASE; LEIOMYOMA; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR REGRESSION;

FEMALE; HISTIOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYOFIBROMATOSIS; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; ORGANELLES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032803811     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000372-199908000-00012     Document Type: Article

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