Diffuse pulmonary meningotheliomatosis

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 624-631

  Suster, Saul ^a   Moran, Cesar A ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse pulmonary meningotheliomatosis; Interstitial lung disease; Lymphangitis carcinomatosa; Meningothelial like nodules; Minute pulmonary chemodectoma

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSE PULMONARY MENINGOTHELIOMATOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; MALE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PARAGANGLIOMA, EXTRA-ADRENAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34147172435     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213385.25042.cf     Document Type: Article

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