Hemangioma versus vascular malformation: Presence of nerve bundle is a diagnostic clue for vascular malformation

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 772-775

  Adegboyega, Patrick A ^a   Qiu, Suimin ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ARTERIOLE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERY; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE BUNDLE; NERVOUS TISSUE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY;

ARTERIES; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTIC TISSUE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; STAINING AND LABELING; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 19544373798     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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