Matrical Carcinoma with Prominent Melanocytic Hyperplasia (Malignant Melanocytic Matricoma?): A Report of Two Cases

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 485-489

  Monteagudo, Carlos ^a,d   Fernández Figueras, Maria Teresa ^b   San Juan, Josefina ^c   Lopez, Dolores ^b   Carda, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Matrical carcinoma; Melanocytes; Melanocytic matricoma; Pilomatrix carcinoma

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXCISION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATRICAL CARCINOMA; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC MATRICOMA; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SKIN NODULE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR;

AGED; HAIR DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; PILOMATRIXOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0344844562     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000372-200312000-00005     Document Type: Article

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