Image of the Month: Desmoid Tumor

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-224

  Hemmer, Patrick H ^a   Zeebregts, Clark J ^a   Van Baarlen, Joop ^b   Klaase, Joost M ^a  

^a MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory of Medical Microbiology Twente Achterhoek   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN CITRATE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESMOID TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GARDNER SYNDROME; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOPERABLE CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GARDNER SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; TAMOXIFEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0842288275     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.2.223     Document Type: Article

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