Inflammatory pseudotumor: Tumor or pseudotumor?;Pseudotumeur inflammatoire: Tumeur ou pseudotumeur?

Annales de Pathologie

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 437-439

  Guillou, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ALK; Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor; Inflammatory pseudotumor; Soft tissue tumor

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOFIBROMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; FEVER; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MAST CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PSEUDOTUMOR; SYMPTOM; TUMOR; XANTHOMA;

GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL, PULMONARY; HUMANS;

EID: 0036979031     PISSN: 02426498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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