Malignant melanoma of the oral mucosa in a 17-year-old adolescent girl

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1110-1113

  D'Silva, Nisha J ^a   Kurago, Zoya ^c   Polverini, Peter J ^a,d   Hanks, Carl T ^a,b   Paulino, Augusto F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 100; MELAN A; MELANIN; MUSCLE ANTIGEN; PIGMENT; PROTEIN S 100; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOPSY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTIST; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GINGIVA BLEEDING; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; MAXILLA; MAXILLA RESECTION; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; MELANOMA; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOLAR TOOTH; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH EXAMINATION; MOUTH LESION; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUCORMYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATION; ORAL BLEEDING; PAIN; PALATE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOFT TISSUE; SPINDLE CELL; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TUMOR CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; S100 PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036770452     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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