Human Pathology
Volume 41, Issue 1 , Pages 129-133 , January 2010

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma with immature T-cell proliferation

  • Wook Youn Kim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Tumor Immunity Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea
    • ,
  • Haeryoung Kim, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Kyeonggi-do 463-707, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Yoon Kyung Jeon, is to be contacted at Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongro-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Haeryoung Kim, is to be contacted at Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-707, Korea.
    • ,
  • Yoon Kyung Jeon, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Tumor Immunity Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Yoon Kyung Jeon, is to be contacted at Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Hospital, Jongro-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Haeryoung Kim, is to be contacted at Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-707, Korea.
    • ,
  • Chul-Woo Kim, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Tumor Immunity Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea

Received 29 January 2009 ,Revised 22 April 2009 ,Accepted 22 May 2009.

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☆ This work was supported by grants from the Korean Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) through the Tumor Immunity Medical Research Center at Seoul National University College of Medicine.

PII: S0046-8177(09)00233-0

doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.05.014

Human Pathology
Volume 41, Issue 1 , Pages 129-133 , January 2010

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