Primary mucosal melanomas of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. A clinicopathological analysis of 14 cases

APMIS

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 403-410

  Regauer, Sigrid ^a,c   Anderhuber, Wolfgang ^a   Richtig, Erika ^a   Schachenreiter, Jochen ^b   Ott, Arthur ^a   Beham, Alfred ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

HMB45; Immunohistochemistry; Mucosal melanoma; Nose; S 100; Small blue cell histology

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MITOSIS INDEX; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE MUCOSA; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031961393     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1998.tb01364.x     Document Type: Article

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