Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma: A Low-grade Melanocytic Tumor with Metastatic Potential Indistinguishable from Animal-type Melanoma and Epithelioid Blue Nevus

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-40

  Zembowicz, Artur ^a   Carney, J Aidan ^b   Mihm, Martin C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Carney complex; Epithelioid blue nevus; Equine melanotic disease; Melanoma; Metastases; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TYPE MELANOMA; ARTICLE; BLUE NEVUS; CANCER GRADING; CARNEY COMPLEX; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DERMIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIOID BLUE NEVUS; EPITHELIOID CELL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; KELOID; LIMB; LITERATURE; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTED EPITHELIOID MELANOCYTOMA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SEX; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; ULCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, BLUE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0347419011     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200401000-00002     Document Type: Article

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