Bullous malignant melanoma: An unusual differential diagnosis of a hemorrhagic friction blister

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 102-104

  Vogt, Thomas ^a,b   Brunnberg, Stephanie ^a   Hohenleutner, Ulrich ^a   Landthaler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FRICTION BLISTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; BLISTER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037243192     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2003.29005.x     Document Type: Article

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