The histiocytic marker PG-M1 is helpful in differentiating histiocytes and histiocytic tumors from melanomas

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 205-209

  Groisman, Gabriel M ^a   Amar, Mary ^a   Schäfer, Ion ^a  

^a HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

CD 68; Histiocytes; Melanoma; PG M1

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; BIOTIN; CD68 ANTIGEN; LYSOZYME; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY PG M1; PROTEIN S 100; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CD68 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTIOCYTE; HISTIOCYTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBROMA; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTIOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; MURAMIDASE; NEOPLASMS, FIBROUS TISSUE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036731892     PISSN: 10623345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00022744-200209000-00003     Document Type: Article

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