American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 262-264 , July 2008

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma of the nasopharynx

  • Rosalía Souvirón Encabo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, “Gregorio Marañón” University General Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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  • Jonathan McHugh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
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  • Ricardo L. Carrau, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology and Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Eye and Ear Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology and Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Eye and Ear Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Tel.: +1 412 647 8186; fax: +1 412 647 2080.
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  • Amin Kassam, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
    • ,
  • Dwight Heron, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA

Received 16 August 2007

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PII: S0196-0709(07)00116-0

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2007.08.005

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 262-264 , July 2008

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