Primary vulvar melanoma with satellite metastasis: Dermoscopic findings

Dermatology

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-148

  Virgili, Annarosa ^a   Zampino, Maria Rosaria ^a   Corazza, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dermoscopy; Genital pigmentation; Melanoma; Vulva

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1842475770     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076490     Document Type: Article

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