Diffuse melanosis after chemotherapy-induced tumor lysis syndrome in a patient with metastatic melanoma

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 274-280

  Busam, Klaus J ^a   Wolchok, Jedd ^a   Jungbluth, Achim A ^b   Chapman, Paul ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; CISPLATIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DACARBAZINE; EOSIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 100; HEMATOXYLIN; INTERLEUKIN 2; MELAN A; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; SECRETORY PROTEIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; MELANOSIS; MELANOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN; SKIN COLOR; STAINING; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TISSUE SLICE; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VENULE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW; DACARBAZINE; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-2; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; MELANOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 1242315439     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0303-6987.2003.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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