Localized retroperitoneal lymphangioleiomyomatosis mimicking malignancy: A case report and review of the literature

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 879-882

  Jaiswal, Vilkesh R ^a   Baird, Julie ^a   Fleming, Jason ^a   Miller, David Scott ^b   Sharma, Suash ^a   Molberg, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DESMIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGE; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYOMATOSIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SARCOMA; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYOMATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE NEOPLASMS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037678710     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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