Breast-like vulvar lesion with concurrent breast cancer: A case report and critical literature review

In Vivo

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 629-634

  Perrone, Giuseppe ^a   Altomare, Vittorio ^a   Zagami, Mariagiovanna ^a   Vulcano, Ettore ^a   Muzii, Ludovico ^a   Battista, Cleonice ^a   Rabitti, Carla ^a   Muda, Andrea Onetti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast like vulvar lesion; Immunohistochemistry; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MAMMOGRAPHY; VULVA CANCER;

EID: 67650938905     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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