Gastric fibromyxoma, a distinct entity of pure fibroblastic tumor - An ultrastructural study

APMIS

Volumn 112, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 304-308

  Fukunaga, Masaharu ^a,b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibromyxoma; Fibrous tumor; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; Stomach

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; PROTEIN S 100; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITIC CELL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBROBLAST; FIBROMA; GASTRIC FIBROMYXOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERDIGITATING CELL; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MYXOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SPINDLE CELL; STELLATE CELL; STOMACH TUMOR; SUBMUCOSA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD34; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROMA; HUMANS; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3442895997     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2004.apm11204-0512.x     Document Type: Article

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