Ultrastructural heterogeneity of acquired intradermal melanocytic nevus cells

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 255-261

  Yang, Peng ^a,b   Hirose, Takanori ^a   Hasegawa, Tadashi ^a   Seki, Kunihiko ^a   Nakanishi, Hideki ^a   Hizawa, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SHANDONG FIRST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunoelectron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Melanocyte; Nevus; Perineurial cell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL;

EID: 0030006386     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913129609016323     Document Type: Article

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