Deep-seated ordinary and atypical lipomas : Histopathology, cytogenetics, clinical features, and outcome in 215 tumours of the extremity and trunk wall

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 929-933

  Billing, V ^a,b   Mertens, F ^a,c   Domanski, H A ^a,c   Rydholm, A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Angelholm Hospital   (Sweden)

^c Department of Clinical Genetics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEEP SEATED LIPOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LIMB TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RING CHROMOSOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CYTOGENETICS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC WALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47549091156     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.90B7.20348     Document Type: Review

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