Clear-cell epithelioid leiomyoma of the round ligament

Modern Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 912-918

  Bakotic, Bradley W ^a,d   Cabello Inchausti, Beria ^a   Willis, Irvin H ^b   Suster, Saul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bizarre leiomyoma; Clear cell leiomyoma; Epithelioid leiomyoma; Leiomyoblastoma; Round ligament

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DESMIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOBLASTOMA; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; AGED; DESMIN; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA, EPITHELIOID; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; ROUND LIGAMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0032868460     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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