Appendiceal mass in a middle-aged woman

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 407-408

  Miller, Jeremy S ^a   Ramalingam, Preetha ^a,b   Wang, Beverly Y ^a   Lee, Jeffrey R ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM TUMOR; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG TUMOR; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; THYMOMA; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIMENTIN;

EID: 33644976968     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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