Melanoma simulating atypical fibroxanthoma

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 551-554

  Sangüeza, Martin ^a   Zelger, Bernhard ^b  

^a Caja Nacional de Salud   (Bolivia)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atypical fibroxanthoma; Immunohistochemistry; Melanoma; Soft tissue tumor

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLORDANE; PROTEIN S 100;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROXANTHOMA; GIANT CELL; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MELANOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 36348934529     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DAD.0b013e31815936ff     Document Type: Article

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