Unusual Multinucleated Giant Cell Reaction in a Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Histopathological and

Celeste Sánchez-Romero1, Roman Carlos2, Ciro Dantas Soares3

  • 1Oral Pathology Section, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Av. Limeira 901, P.O. Box. 52, Piracicaba, São Paulo, 1314-903, Brazil. csr_90@hotmail.com.

Head and Neck Pathology
|February 11, 2018
PubMed

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