Vitiligo-like depigmentation as a presenting sign of metastatic melanoma [3]

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1135-1137

  Kiecker, F ^a   Hofmann, M ^a   Sterry, W ^a   Trefzer, Uwe ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACARBAZINE; FOTEMUSTINE;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENUCLEATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INOPERABLE CANCER; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; OVARY METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS CANCER; UVEA MELANOMA; VITILIGO;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; VITILIGO;

EID: 33748895927     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01628.x     Document Type: Letter

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