Epithelioid hemangioma of bone and soft tissue: A reappraisal of a controversial entity

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1498-1506

  Errani, Costantino ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Panicek, David M ^a   Healey, John H ^a   Antonescu, Cristina R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE LESION; BONE TUMOR; CAMTA1 GENE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOGENE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WWTR1 GENE;

EID: 84859862382     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-2070-0     Document Type: Article

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