Quantification of vascularity in nodular melanoma and Spitz's nevus

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 272-277

  Binder, Michael ^a,b   Steiner, Andreas ^a   Mossbacher, Ulrike ^a   Hunegnaw, Mesfin ^a   Wolff, Klaus ^a   Pehamberger, Hubert ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULEX EUROPAEUS AGGLUTININ;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MEASUREMENT; MELANOMA; SKIN TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030925230     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1997.tb00791.x     Document Type: Article

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