Management of a large abdominal wall desmoid tumor during pregnancy. Case report

Annali Italiani di Chirurgia

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-156

  Michopoulou, Aikaterini ^a   Germanos, Stylianos ^a   Kanakopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Milonas, Anastasios ^b   Orfanos, Nikolaos ^b   Spyratou, Christina ^b   Markidis, Panagiotis ^b  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall.; Aggressive fibromatosis.; Desmoid tumor

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC;

EID: 77956991014     PISSN: 2239253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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