Diagnostic challenges of metastatic spindle cell melanoma on fine-needle aspiration specimens

Cancer

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 94-101

  Piao, Yingchao ^a   Guo, Ming ^a   Gong, Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytology; Fine needle aspiration; Immunocytochemistry; Melanoma; Metastatic; Spindle cell

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; PEROXIDASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE MARKER; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACRONUCLEUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SPINDLE CELL; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 43149098322     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23345     Document Type: Article

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