Littoral Cell Angioma: A Case Report and Review

Current Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 345-350

  Harmon, Rhonda L ^a   Cerruto, Carlos A ^a   Scheckner, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LITTORAL CELL ANGIOMA; METASTASIS; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLEEN BIOPSY; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; SPLEEN; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748435910     PISSN: 01497944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cursur.2006.06.011     Document Type: Review

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