Unusual vascular changes in the red pulp of the spleen accompanying breast carcinoma metastasis

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-56

  Chapel, Françoise ^a   Baume, Daniel ^a   Bereder, Jean Marc ^a  

^a Hopital Font Pre   (France)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Metastasis; Red pulp; Spleen; Stromal reaction

Indexed keywords

CA 15-3 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSPLENISM; LYMPHADENOPATHY; METASTASIS; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0032944299     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0344-0338(99)80096-X     Document Type: Article

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