Benign metastasizing leiomyoma of the uterus

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-99

  Rakhshani, Nasser ^a   Hormazdi, Mahshid ^b   Abolhasani, Maryam ^a   Shahzadi, Mahmood ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Benign metastasizing leiomyoma; Retroperitonem; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN METASTASIZING LEIOMYOMA; BENIGN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYALINE DEGENERATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; MITOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS MYOMA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33846651508     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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