Usefulness of silver intensification of immunostaining for cytologic diagnosis of primary melanoma of the female genital organs

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1075-1080

  Saito, Tsuyoshi ^a   Takehara, Masaki ^a   Tanaka, Ryoichi ^a   Sato, Ken ichiro ^a   Fujita, Miri ^a   Kudo, Ryuichi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Melanoma; Melanoma, amelanotic; Silver staining; Vaginal cancer; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45;

ADULT; AGED; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; VAGINA CANCER; VULVA CANCER;

EID: 0036849083     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327110     Document Type: Article

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