Fetiform teratoma (Homunculus)

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1552-1556

  Weiss, Jason R ^a,b   Burgess, Jeanette R ^c   Kaplan, Keith J ^a,b  

^a EVANSTON HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPAREUNIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETIFORM TERATOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY TERATOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SYMPTOM;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33749501053     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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