A primary amelanotic melanoma of the vagina, diagnosed by immunohistochemical staining with HMB-45, which recurred as a pigmented melanoma

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 986-988

  Oguri, H ^a   Izumiya, C ^a   Maeda, N ^a   Fukaya, T ^a   Moriki, T ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN S 100; VINDESINE;

ADULT; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRRADIATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MELANOMA; NON-EPITHELIAL TUMORS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; STAINING; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR REGRESSION; VAGINA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; S100 PROTEINS; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4444349622     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2004.016220     Document Type: Article

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