An extremely rare primary gallbladder myxoid liposarcoma associated with amplification of DDIT3 gene
Yihong Ma1, Shi Wei2, Deniz Peker2
1Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham,Birmingham Al 35249, USA. yihongma@uabmc.edu.
Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases : JGLD
|December 23, 2014
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