Malignant solitary fibrous tumor of the thigh accompanied by hypoglycemic coma. A case report

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3 C, 2005, Pages 2461-2464

  Nakamura, Shinichiro ^a,b,c   Fukui, Michiaki ^b   Takeshita, Hideyuki ^b   Tsuji, Yoshiro ^b   Murata, Hiroaki ^b   Kubo, Toshikazu ^b  

^a Ayabe Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Ayabe Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypoglycemia; Insulin like growth factor II; Malignant solitary fibrous tumor; Soft tissue tumor

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBROMA; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIC COMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; THIGH; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED; COMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MESOTHELIOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; THIGH;

EID: 22944461420     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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