Current diagnostic problems in melanoma pathology

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-41

  Ruiter, Dirk J ^a   Van Dijk, Marcory C R F ^b   Ferrier, Cilia M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NEVUS; REVIEW;

CARCINOMA IN SITU; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; MELANOMA; NEVUS, BLUE; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038370127     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/sder.2003.50003     Document Type: Review

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