Approach to lymphoproliferative infiltrates of the skin: The difficult lesions

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 111, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Kempf, Werner ^a   Dummer, Reinhard ^a   Burg, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

B cell; Cutaneous lymphomas; Diagnosis; Differential diagnosis; Rare entities; Skin; T cell

Indexed keywords

B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL INFILTRATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOLYMPHOMA; REVIEW; SKIN LYMPHOMA; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032944015     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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