Malignant changes in a giant orbital keratoacanthoma developing over 25 years

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 223-225

  Alyahya, Ghassan A ^a   Heegaard, Steffen ^a   Prause, Jan Ulrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Benign; Histopathology; Immunohistochemistry; Keratoacanthoma; Malignant; Orbit.; Squamous cell carcinoma; Tumour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; EVISCERATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOACANTHOMA; LEUKEMOID REACTION; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; ORBIT TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; KERATOACANTHOMA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; ORBITAL DISEASES; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034127823     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2000.078002223.x     Document Type: Article

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