Oral acantholytic squamous cell carcinoma shares clinical and histological features with angiosarcoma

Head and Face Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Driemel, Oliver ^a   Müller Richter, Urs D A ^b   Hakim, Samer G ^c   Bauer, Richard ^a   Berndt, Alexander ^d   Kleinheinz, Johannes ^e   Reichert, Torsten E ^a   Kosmehl, Hartwig ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f HELIOS KLINIKUM ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOLYSIS; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH TUMOR; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ACANTHOLYSIS; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 49649124712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1746160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-160X-4-17     Document Type: Article

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