Eyelid swelling: Think of metastasis of histiocytoid breast carcinoma

Dermatology

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 63-66

  Tomasini, Carlo ^a   Soro, Elisabetta ^b   Pippione, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Eyelid; Granular cells; Histiocytoid breast carcinoma; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; MUCIN; TAMOXIFEN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; EPIDERMOID CYST; EYELID EDEMA; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CARCINOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CYST; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN NODULE; TIME OF DEATH; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR CELL; XANTHOMA;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; EYELID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036973586     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063133     Document Type: Article

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