Fine-needle aspiration cytologic diagnosis of metastatic melanotic schwannoma: Familial case of a mother and daughter with Carney's complex and literature review

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 130-134

  Mosunjac, Marina B ^a   Johnston, Elizabeth I ^a   Mosunjac, Mario I ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carney's complex; Metastatic melanotic schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CARNEY COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; DAUGHTER; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MELANOSIS; METASTASIS; MOTHER; MYXOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAMMOMA BODY; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MELANINS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEURILEMMOMA; NEVUS, BLUE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 33846989332     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20593     Document Type: Article

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