Malignant blue nevus with lymph node metastases in five-year-old girl

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 463-466

  Hočevar, Marko ^a   Kitanovski, Lidija ^b   Grazio, Snježana Frković ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUE NEVUS; CASE REPORT; CHEEK; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NECK DISSECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEVUS, BLUE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 18844440654     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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