Postradiation cutaneous vascular tumors of the breast: a review

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 141-149

  Weaver, Joshua ^a   Billings, Steven D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical vascular tumor; Postradiation angiosarcoma; Postradiation vascular tumors

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUTANEOUS ANGIOSARCOMA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTRADIATION CUTANEOUS VASCULAR TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VASCULAR LESION; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 71749100846     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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