Spindle cell lesions-neoplastic or non-neoplastic?: Spindle cell carcinoma and other atypical spindle cell lesions of the head and neck

Head and Neck Pathology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-110

  Lewis Jr , James S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Spindle cell carcinoma; Spindle cell lesions

Indexed keywords

CARCINOMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; NOSE POLYP; PATHOLOGY; ULCER;

CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NASAL POLYPS; ULCER;

EID: 77957357020     PISSN: 1936055X     EISSN: 19360568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12105-008-0055-4     Document Type: Review

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