Fibromatosis: The breast cancer imitator

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1100-1103

  Matherne, Tamera Hughes ^a,b   Green Jr , Allan ^a   Tucker, J Allan ^a   Dyess, Donna Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast tumor; Extra abdominal desmoid; Fibromatosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOID TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; METASTASIS; PARENCHYMA; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOLOGY; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 8744269578     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000125109.51375.5C     Document Type: Review

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