Pinkus tumor may originate from intraepidermal eccrine ducts and proliferate in the dermis

Oncology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-54

  Kurokawa, Ichiro ^a   Yokoyama, Tomoya ^a   Nishimura, Keisuke ^a   Hakamada, Arata ^a   Isoda, Ken Ichi ^a   Yamanaka, Kei Ichi ^a   Tsubura, Airo ^b   Mizutani, Hitoshi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin; Intradermal duct; Pinkus tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; KERATIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BIOSYNTHESIS; CASE REPORT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR; STAINING; SWEAT GLAND;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; ECCRINE GLANDS; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); EPITHELIAL CELLS; HEMATOXYLIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, FIBROEPITHELIAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 39049174294     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.17.1.49     Document Type: Article

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