Chondroid syringoma: Cytokeratin 20 immunolocalization of merkel cells and reappraisal of apocrine folliculo-sebaceous differentiation

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 986-990

  Salama, Mohamed E ^a   Azam, Muhammad ^b   Ma, Chan K ^a   Ormsby, Adrian ^a   Zarbo, Richard J ^a   Amin, Mahul B ^c   Lee, Min W ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b North Ottawa Community Hospital   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 20;

ADULT; AGED; APOCRINE GLAND; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROID HIDRADENOMA; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MERKEL CELL; OSSIFICATION; SEBACEOUS GLAND; SKIN TUMOR; SWEAT GLAND; SYRINGOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOMA, PLEOMORPHIC; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOCRINE GLANDS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ECCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-20; MALE; MERKEL CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; SEBACEOUS GLANDS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SWEAT GLAND NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4444239698     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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