Pigmented Bowen's disease of the finger mimicking malignant melanoma

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-257

  Firooz, Alireza ^a   Farsi, Nader ^b   Rashighi Firoozabadi, Mehdi ^a   Gorouhi, Farzam ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Army University of Medicine   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bowen's disease; Malignant melanoma; Pigmentation; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOSIS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BOWEN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FINGER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IRAN; MELANOMA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN SURGERY; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; BOWEN'S DISEASE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247580785     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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