Primary angiosarcoma of the ovary with prominent fibrosis of the ovarian stroma. Case report of an 81-year old patient

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bösmüller, Hans ^a   Gruber, Christine ^a   Haitchi Petnehazy, Sophie ^a   Wagner, Dietmar ^b   Webersinke, Gerald ^a   Hauptmann, Steffen ^c  

^a Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Linz   (Austria)

^b ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIBIOTIC; DOXORUBICIN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; OVARY; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; STROMA CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; STROMAL CELLS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960285367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-6-65     Document Type: Article

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