Low-risk and high-risk histologic features in conjunctival primary acquired melanosis with atypia: Clinicopathologic analysis of 29 cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-192

  Sugiura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Colby, Kathryn A ^b   Mihm Jr , Martin C ^a   Zembowicz, Artur ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjunctival melanocytic proliferation; Malignant melanoma; Primary acquired melanosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSIS; METASTASIS; PRIMARY ACQUIRED CONJUNCTIVA MELANOSIS WITH ATYPIA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; CRYOSURGERY; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 33846591947     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213339.32734.64     Document Type: Article

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