Postradiation sarcoma: Case report and review of the potential complications of therapeutic ionizing radiation

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 8 PART 1, 2005, Pages 966-972

  Fangman, William L ^a   Cook, Jonathan L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IONIZING RADIATION; LEG; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN BIOPSY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; DERMATOFIBROMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION, IONIZING; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 24044514012     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2005.31815     Document Type: Review

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