Malignant melanomas simulating various types of soft tissue tumors

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1047-1054

  Zelger, Bettina G ^a   Steiner, Hansjörg ^a   Wambacher, Beatrix ^b   Zelger, Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBROXANTHOMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030784453     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.1997.tb00446.x     Document Type: Article

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