Lipomatous tumors - How we have reached our present views, what controversies remain and why we still face diagnostic problems: A tribute to Dr Franz Enzinger

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 279-285

  Kindblom, Lars Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Franz Enzinger; Lipomatous tumors; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOFIBROMA; HAMARTOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIPOBLASTOMA; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS, ADIPOSE TISSUE; PATHOLOGY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33750556614     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pap.0000213053.00060.5a     Document Type: Review

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