Childhood subungual melanoma in situ in diffuse nail melanosis beginning as expanding longitudinal melanonychia

Pediatric Dermatology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 210-212

  Antonovich, Diana D ^a   Grin, Caron ^b   Grant Kels, Jane M ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; NAIL PIGMENTATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RARE DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

CARCINOMA IN SITU; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NAIL DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 19644364947     PISSN: 07368046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.2005.22306.x     Document Type: Article

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