An Ultrastructural and Immunohistochemical Study of Elastofibroma: CD 34, MEF-2, prominin 2 (CD133), and Factor XIIIa-positive Proliferating Fibroblastic Stromal Cells Connected by Cx43-type Gap Junctions

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