Extensive proliferative nodules in a case of giant congenital naevus

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-127

  Aoyagi, S ^a   Akiyama, M ^a   Mashiko, M ^a   Shibaki, A ^a   Shimizu, H ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL NEVUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MELANOSIS; MYXOMA; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHAKOMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN NODULE; WORINGER KOLOPP DISEASE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN; SKIN ABNORMALITIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38849092613     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2007.02542.x     Document Type: Article

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