Angiotropic melanoma and extravascular migratory metastasis: A review

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-201

  Lugassy, Claire ^a   Barnhill, Raymond L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiotropic melanoma; Extravascular migratory metastasis; Malignant melanoma; Melanoma metastasis

Indexed keywords

LAMININ;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL MIGRATION; CHORIOALLANTOIS; COCULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKIN METASTASIS; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 34247497633     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0b013e31805048d9     Document Type: Review

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