Orbital and extraorbital giant cell angiofibroma: A giant cell-rich variant of solitary fibrous tumor?: Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis of a series in favor of a unifying concept

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 971-979

  Guillou, Louis ^a   Gebhard, Sandra ^a   Coindre, Jean Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT BERGONIÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Angiofibroma; Giant cell angiofibroma; Hemangiopericytoma; Immunohistochemistry; Pathology; Soft tissue neoplasm; Solitary fibrous tumor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD99 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; KERATIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL TUMOR; HEMANGIOFIBROMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITOSIS RATE; ORBIT TUMOR; SPINDLE CELL; STROMA CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOFIBROMA; FEMALE; FIBROMA; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033932512     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200007000-00008     Document Type: Article

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