Clinical and Histopathological Diagnosis of Glomus Tumor: An Institutional Experience of 138 Cases

International Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 181-188

  Mravic, Marco ^a   LaChaud, Gregory ^a,b   Nguyen, Alan ^a   Scott, Michelle A ^c   Dry, Sarah M ^a   James, Aaron W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

glomangioma; glomangiomatosis; glomangiomyoma; glomangiosarcoma; glomus tumor; perivascular neoplasm

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ANGIOMA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROMA; GLOMUS TUMOR; HIDRADENOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; LIPOMA; MELANOMA; NEUROMA; NEVUS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADULT; AGED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; GLOMUS TUMOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84930467781     PISSN: 10668969     EISSN: 19402465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1066896914567330     Document Type: Article

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