Glycogen-rich malignant melanomas and glycogen-rich balloon cell malignant melanomas: Frequency and pattern of PAS positivity in primary and metastatic melanomas

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-360

  Nowak, Michael A ^b   Fatteh, Shokat M ^b   Campbell, Tom E ^a  

^a Western Reserve Care System   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN;

BIOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; GLYCOGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERIODIC ACID-SCHIFF REACTION;

EID: 0031915496     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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