Aggressive giant fibroepithelial lesion with unusual vascular stroma - A case report

Modern Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 823-827

  Hanna, Wedad ^a,b   AL Maghrabi, J ^a   Malik, Abha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Giant fibroepithelial lesion with vascular stroma; Phyllodes tumor; Vascular breast lesions

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CASE REPORT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL JUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHINESE; CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLOIDES; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROBLAST; FIBROEPITHELIAL TUMOR; GIANT FIBROEPITHELIAL LESION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MAMMARY GLAND; MASTECTOMY; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOANGIOMATOUS HYPERPLASIA; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STROMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR STROMA; WEIBEL PALADE BODY;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, FIBROEPITHELIAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHYLLODES TUMOR;

EID: 0041387309     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MP.0000075644.61258.85     Document Type: Article

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