Clinicopathologic differences in malignant melanoma arising in oral squamous and sinonasal respiratory mucosa of the upper aerodigestive tract

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 997-1002

  Prasad, Manju L ^a,b   Busam, Klaus J ^b   Patel, Snehal G ^b   Hoshaw Woodard, Stacy ^a   Shah, Jatin P ^b   Huvos, Andrew G ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH TUMOR; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MAXILLA SINUS CANCER; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE TUMOR; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NASAL MUCOSA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NOSE NEOPLASMS; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

EID: 0041765729     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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