Small Intestinal Angiosarcoma Leading to Perforation and Acute Abdomen: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-98

  Kelemen, Katalin ^a   Yu, Qing Qing ^a   Howard, Lydia ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MALE; MESENTERY; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE ANGIOSARCOMA;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; AGED; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0345737056     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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