Granular cell tumor of the vulva: Six new cases

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 273, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 246-249

  Levavi, Hanoch ^a   Sabah, Gad ^a   Kaplan, Boris ^a   Tytiun, Yehezkel ^a   Braslavsky, Diana ^a   Gutman, Haim ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Granular cell tumor; Vulva

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VULVA TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOT DISEASES; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TOES; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 29344455537     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-005-0054-6     Document Type: Article

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