Cutaneous reactive angiomatoses: Patterns and classification of reactive vascular proliferation

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 887-896

  Rongioletti, Franco ^a   Rebora, Alfredo ^b  

^a Clinica Dermatologica   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRODERMATITIS; ANGIOMA; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GLOMERULOID ANGIOENDOTHELIOMATOSIS; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HISTIOCYTE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; REVIEW; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN PLAQUE; SKIN ULCER; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0142151697     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0190-9622(03)02100-5     Document Type: Review

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