Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of paranasal sinuses with fatal outcome: Reactive lesion or tumour?

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 715-717

  Gale, N ^a   Zidar, N ^a   Podboj, J ^b   Volavsek M ^a   Luzar, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DURA MATER; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METASTASIS; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPISTAXIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS, MUSCLE TISSUE; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0041761199     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.56.9.715     Document Type: Article

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