Melanocytic "ball-in-mitts" and "microalveolar structures" and their role in the development of cellular blue nevi

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 160-175

  Kazakov, Dmitry V ^a   Michal, Michal ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Blue nevus; Cellular blue nevus; Clonal nevus; Combined nevus; Deep penetrating nevus; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; HMB 45; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALL IN MITT STRUCTURE; BLUE NEVUS; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR BLUE NEVUS; CHILD; COMBINED NEVUS; CYTOPLASM; DEEP PENETRATING NEVUS; DENDRITIC CELL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MELANOSOME; MICROALVEOLAR STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL NUCLEUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEVUS; NEVUS, BLUE; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247877749     PISSN: 10929134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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