Epidermotropic metastatic malignant melanoma with a pedunculated appearance [1]

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 666-668

  Hayashi, H ^a   Kawashima, T ^a   Hosokawa, K ^a   Kiyohara, T ^a   Kobayashi, H ^a   Ohkawara, A ^a   Shimizu, H ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; MOUTH CAVITY; MUCOSA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0242574551     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2230.2003.01371.x     Document Type: Letter

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