Mesometrial smooth muscle as an origin of female retroperitoneal (pelvic) leiomyomas

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 451, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 899-904

  Watanabe, Kazuo ^a   Tanaka, Mizuko ^a   Kusakabe, Takashi ^a   Soeda, Shu ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Leiomyoma; Leiomyosarcoma; Mesometrium; Progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CELL MARKER; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERUS CAVITY;

AGED; BROAD LIGAMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35848934346     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-007-0501-9     Document Type: Article

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