Hobnail hemangioma ('targetoid hemosiderotic hemangioma'): Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis of 62 cases

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 279-286

  Mentzel, Thomas ^a   Partanen, Taina A ^c   Kutzner, Heinz ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Dermatohistologisches Labor   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BACK; BUTTOCK; CELL STRUCTURE; CHILD; DERMATOFIBROMA; DERMIS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEG; LYMPHANGIOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; PERICYTE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN TUMOR; THORAX WALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, CD34; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-3;

EID: 0032802373     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1999.tb01845.x     Document Type: Article

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