Proposal of a new grading system for malignant fibrous histiocytomas

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6 B, 2005, Pages 4293-4298

  Brinck, Ulrich ^a   Cordon Cardo, Carlos ^b   Stachura, Jerzy ^c   Bortkiewicz, Pawel ^d   Fischer, Gösta ^a   Korabiowska, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Grading; MFH; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MITOSIS RATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, MALIGNANT FIBROUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 27944441625     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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