Eccrine porocarcinoma of the head: An important differential diagnosis in the elderly patient

Dermatology

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-233

  Gerber, Peter Arne ^a   Schulte, Klaus Werner ^a   Ruzicka, Thomas ^b   Bruch Gerharz, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Eccrine porocarcinoma; Malignant eccrine poroma; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECCRINE POROCARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SKIN BIOPSY; SWEAT GLAND CARCINOMA; TUMOR BLEEDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SKIN APPENDAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SWEAT GLAND NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40949152068     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000112931     Document Type: Article

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