Unusual aggressive course of a giant cell tumor of soft tissue during immunosuppressive therapy

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 448, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 847-851

  Grabellus, Florian ^a   Von Winterfeld, Friederike ^a   Sheu, Sien Yi ^a   Metz, Klaus A ^a   Jahnke, Klaus ^a   Schmid, Kurt W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sarcomas; Soft tissue; Transplantation pathology

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER RELAPSE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GIANT CELL TUMOR; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; PAROTID GLAND; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TISSUE SECTION;

AGED; GIANT CELL TUMORS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33744761198     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-006-0184-7     Document Type: Article

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