Cutaneous malignant melanotic neurocristic tumors arising in neurocristic hamartomas: A melanocytic tumor morphologically and biologically distinct from common melanoma

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 665-677

  Pearson, Jeffrey P ^a   Weiss, Sharon W ^a   Headington, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue nevus; Congenital nevus; Malignant blue nevus; Melanoma; Neural crest; Neurocristic hamartoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; NEURAL CREST; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEURAL CREST; NEVUS, BLUE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029984504     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199606000-00003     Document Type: Article

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