Vulvar toker cells: The long-awaited missing link - A proposal for an origin-based histogenetic classification of extramammary paget disease [2]

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-86

  Belousova, Irena E ^a   Kazakov, Dmitry V ^b   Michal, Michal ^b   Suster, Saul ^c  

^a Medical Military Academy   (Russian Federation)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARTHOLIN GLAND; CANCER CELL; CANCER RECURRENCE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECTOPIC BREAST; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAMMARY GLAND; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR GROWTH; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR; VULVA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET'S DISEASE, EXTRAMAMMARY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VULVA;

EID: 33745964157     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.dad.0000194052.65695.f1     Document Type: Letter

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