Cutaneous metastatic breast carcinoma with melanocyte colonization: A clinical and dermoscopic mimic of malignant melanoma

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 949-954

  Wyatt, Angela J ^a   Agero, Anna Liza C ^b   Delgado, Ruby ^b   Busam, Klaus J ^b   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN METASTASIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745864355     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32202.x     Document Type: Article

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