A 71-year-old man with spindle-cell neoplasm of unknown origin: A difficult-to-diagnose clear-cell sarcoma

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Spencer, Lori ^a   Jukic, Drazen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLEAR CELL SARCOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERDIGITATING CELL; MALE; MELANOMA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SPINDLE CELL; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA;

EID: 6044273813     PISSN: 10872108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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