Cerebriform nodular amelanotic metastases of malignant melanoma: A challenge in differential diagnosis of a rare variant

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 533-536

  Assmann, A ^a   Farthmann, B ^a   Burkhardt, O ^a   Dippel, E ^a   Orfanos, C E ^a   Blume Peytavi, Ulrike ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaplastic tumour; Cutaneous metastases; Internal cancer; Malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN METASTASIS;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034071126     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2000.03372.x     Document Type: Article

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