Massive localized lymphedema: A clinicopathologic study of 46 patients with an enrichment for multiplicity

Modern Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-82

  Kurt, Habibe ^a,b   Arnold, Christina A ^a   Payne, Jason E ^a   Miller, Michael J ^a   Skoracki, Roman J ^a   Iwenofu, O Hans ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIPOSARCOMA; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; MASSIVE LOCALIZED LYMPHEDEMA; MEDICAL HISTORY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOSARCOMA; PSEUDOTUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THIGH; TUMOR CALCINOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WELL DIFFERENTIATED LIPOSARCOMA; CALCINOSIS; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84952716537     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2015.135     Document Type: Article

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