Hybrid schwannoma/perineurioma: Clinicopathologic analysis of 42 distinctive Benign nerve sheath tumors

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1554-1561

  Hornick, Jason L ^a   Bundock, Elizabeth A ^a   Fletcher, Christopher D M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Nerve sheath tumor; Neurofibroma; Perineurioma; Schwannoma; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; HYALIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CELL STRUCTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON; CYTOPLASM; DERMIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEG; MALE; MITOSIS; NECK; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NERVE TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PATHOLOGIST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHWANN CELL; SPINDLE CELL; STAINING; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TRUNK; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCIN-1; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEURILEMMOMA; S100 PROTEINS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349675235     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181accc6c     Document Type: Article

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