Uterine mullerian adenosarcoma with sarcomatous overgrowth fatal recurrence within two weeks of diagnosis: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Farhat, Mirna H ^a   Hobeika, Elie M ^a   Moumneh, Ghada ^b   Nassar, Anwar H ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b RAFIC HARIRI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENSTRUATION; MULLERIAN ADENOSARCOMA WITH SARCOMATOUS OVERGROWTH; NULLIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERUS SARCOMA; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

EID: 45149106860     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-1-103     Document Type: Article

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