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Sarcoma
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 714986, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/714986
Review Article
Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor: Current Management and Recent Findings
1Department of Immunity, Virus and Microenvironnement, Cancer Research Center of Lyon (CRCL), UMR INSERM 1052—CNRS 5286, Leon Berard Cancer Center, 28 Rue Laennec, 69008 Lyon, France
2Medical Oncology Department, Leon Berard Cancer Center, 28 Rue Laennec, 69008 Lyon, France
Received 14 December 2011; Accepted 22 January 2012
Academic Editor: Isabelle Ray-Coquard
Copyright © 2012 Armelle Dufresne et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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