Case Report: Case of Clear Cell Sarcoma Surviving with the Primary Lesion for 20 years after Resection of a Metastatic Lymph Node

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5 B, 2003, Pages 4197-4203

  Okamura, Naoki ^a   Kusuzaki, Katsuyuki ^a   Matsumine, Akihiko ^a   Seto, Masashi ^a   Fukutome, Kazuo ^a   Uchida, Atsumasa ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clear cell sarcoma; Lymph node metastasis; Survival

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; PROTEIN; PROTEIN HMB 45; PROTEIN S100B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AXILLA; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; STAINING; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; WRIST;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SARCOMA, CLEAR CELL; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; WRIST;

EID: 0345303870     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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