Parenchymatous pulmonary endometriosis - Metastases of a low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 61, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 651-653

  Bodner, Klaus ^a,b   Zauner, Martha ^a   Bodner Adler, Barbara ^a   Spängler, Babette ^a   Grünberger, Werner ^a   Wierrani, Franz ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b Hospital Rudolfstiftung   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM SARCOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ENDOMETRIOSIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0242467475     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00268-8     Document Type: Article

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