Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 13, Issue 2 , Pages 114-118 , April 2009

Osteoclastlike giant cell tumor of the salivary gland

  • Xueping Fang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 716 859 2140; fax: +1 716 859 1853.
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  • David G. Hicks, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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  • Wesley Hicks Jr., MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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  • Shaozeng Zhang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA

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PII: S1092-9134(07)00102-5

doi: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2007.06.009

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 13, Issue 2 , Pages 114-118 , April 2009

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