Angiomatoid Metastatic Melanoma

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages 336-340

  Zelger, Bettina G ^a   Zelger, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CANCER VACCINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MELANOMA; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE METASTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VACCINATION;

EID: 1542288425     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042728-200402002-00018     Document Type: Article

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