Continuing medical education review: Nail apparatus melanoma

Australasian Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 71-83

  Thai, Keng Ee ^a   Young, Richard ^b   D Sinclair, Rodney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Trak Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acral lentiginous; Biopsy; Hutchinson's sign; Malignant melanoma; Melanonychia striata; Nail matrix; Pathology; Prognosis; Review; Subungual

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2 INTERFERON; DACARBAZINE; DNA; MELPHALAN; NITROSOUREA; VINCRISTINE;

AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LIMB PERFUSION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MELANOMA; NAIL DISEASE; ONCOGENE; ONSET AGE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKIN ULCER; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0035021296     PISSN: 00048380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0960.2001.00486.x     Document Type: Review

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