Hemangioma, Lymphangioma, and Skin Cancer

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Hemangioma, Lymphangioma, and Skin Cancer Edward C. Halperin L. Claude John P. Kirkpatrick HEMANGIOMAS Hemangiomas are common developmental vascular abnormalities. These benign blood vessel tumors may be encountered in any…

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Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis

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Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Edward C. Halperin HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Paul Wilhelm Heinrich Langerhans (1847-1888) was born in Berlin. His father and his two brothers were physicians. While still an undergraduate, Langerhans…

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Endocrine, Aerodigestive Tract, and Breast Tumors

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Endocrine, Aerodigestive Tract, and Breast Tumors Line Claude Cécile Nozières ADRENOCORTICAL CARCINOMA Histology Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is an aggressive cancer originating in the cortex of the adrenal gland. This chapter…

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Liver Tumors in Children

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Liver Tumors in Children Bow-Wen Chen Stella Y. Tsai Skye H. Cheng Andrew T. Huang INTRODUCTION Childhood primary tumors of the liver are rare. Of these, about two thirds are…

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Wilms Tumor

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Wilms Tumor John A. Kalapurakal Edward C. Halperin HISTORY The first description of a Wilms tumor was from Thomas F. Rance (1) in his 1814 report “Case of Fungus Haematodes…

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Rhabdomyosarcoma

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Rhabdomyosarcoma Shannon M. MacDonald Alison M. Friedmann Nancy J. Tarbell Louis S. Constine Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a highly malignant neoplasm that arises from embryonal mesenchyme with the potential for differentiating…

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Ewing Sarcoma

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Ewing Sarcoma Karen J. Marcus Torunn Yock Nancy J. Tarbell James Ewing (1866-1943) first described the bone tumor that bears his name in 1921 (1). He observed that the malignancy…

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