Hyalinizing Spitz Nevus: Spindle and Epithelioid Cell Nevus with Paucicellular Collagenous Stroma

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-106

  Liu, Jing ^a   Cohen, Philip R ^a   Farhood, Anwar ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cell; Collagenous; Epithelioid; Hyalinizing; Nevus; Paucicellular; Spindle; Spitz; Stroma

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CYTOKERATIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; EPITHELIOID CELL; EPITHELIOID CELL NEVUS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MELANOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINDLE CELL; STROMA CELL;

ABDOMEN; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1642539203     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000055103.97445.AB     Document Type: Article

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