Spitzoid malignant melanoma with lymph-node metastasis is a copy-number loss on chromosome 6q a marker of malignancy?

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 439, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 823-826

  Mihic Probst, Daniela ^a   Zhao, Jianming ^a   Saremaslani, Parvin ^a   Baer, Angela ^a   Komminoth, Paul ^b   Heitz, Philipp U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital Baden   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Comparative genomic hybridization; Melanoma; Spitz nevus; Spitzoid malignant melanoma; Tumor suppressor gene

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10P; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 9P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JUVENILE MELANOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0035215496     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280100517     Document Type: Article

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