Low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma: A brief review

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1358-1360

  Vernon, Stephen E ^a   Bejarano, Pablo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 7; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREB3L2 GENE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBROMYXOID SARCOMA; FOLLOW UP; FUS GENE; FUSION GENE; GENE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HYALINIZING SPINDLE CELL TUMOR WITH GIANT ROSETTE; METASTASIS; MITOSIS; SARCOMA; SHORT SURVEY; SPINDLE CELL; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SYMPTOM;

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; FIBROMA; HUMANS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ONCOGENE FUSION; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN FUS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33748575290     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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