Epithelioid schwannoma of soft tissue: Unusual morphological variant causing a diagnostic dilemma

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 521-526

  Rezanko, Turkan ^a   Sari, Aysegul Akder ^a   Tunakan, Mine ^a   Calli, Aylin Orgen ^a   Altinboga, Aysegul Aksoy ^a  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epithelioid; Schwannoma; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; EPITHELIOID CELL; EPITHELIOID SCHWANNOMA; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAST CELL; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SPINDLE CELL; THIGH; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPITHELIOID CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEURILEMMOMA; S100 PROTEINS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84868589560     PISSN: 10929134     EISSN: 15328198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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