A colonic polyp due to Langerhans cell histiocytosis: A lesion not to be confused with metastatic malignant melanoma [7]

Histopathology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 438-439

  Sharma, S ^a   Gupta, M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD1; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; COLONIC POLYPS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; S100 PROTEINS;

EID: 33748742707     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2006.02463.x     Document Type: Letter

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