Extensive neurocristic hamartoma with skeletal muscle involvement

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 634-639

  Denlinger, Chadrick E ^a   Slingluff Jr , Craig L ^a   Mihm Jr , Martin C ^b   Patterson, James W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; MELAN A; PSORIASIN; TUMOR MARKER;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MELANOCYTE; NEUROCRISTIC HAMARTOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PIGMENTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN DISEASE; SPINDLE CELL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THORAX WALL; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; BIOPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN DISEASES; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 34447324971     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2006.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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