Splenic metastases: Clinicopathologic presentation, differential diagnosis, and pathogenesis

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 965-969

  Compérat, Eva ^a   Bardier Dupas, Armelle ^a   Camparo, Philippe ^b   Capron, Frédérique ^a   Charlotte, Frédéric ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Hôpital des Armées Val de Grace   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; OVARY CARCINOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; SPLEEN CANCER; SPLEEN METASTASIS; SPLENECTOMY; VASCULAR TUMOR;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; PUBMED; SPLEEN; SPLENIC DISEASES; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34250209154     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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