Increased serum levels of 5-S-cysteinyldopa and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 in a patient with a uterine amelanotic metastasis from a primary vaginal malignant melanoma

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-110

  Suenaga, Yoshito ^a   Katabuchi, Hidetaka ^a   Okamura, Hitoshi ^a   Kageshita, Toshiro ^a   Ono, Tomomichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINYLDOPA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RECURRENCE RISK; UTERUS CANCER; VAGINA CANCER;

EID: 0032900642     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1998.5176     Document Type: Article

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