Lymphatic invasion revealed by multispectral imaging is common in primary melanomas and associates with prognosis

Human Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 901-909

  Xu, Xiaowei ^a   Gimotty, Phyllis A ^a   Guerry, DuPont ^a   Karakousis, Giorgos ^a   Van Belle, Patricia ^a   Liang, Haohai ^a   Montone, Katharine ^a   Pasha, Terry ^a   Ming, Michael E ^a   Acs, Geza ^a   Feldman, Michael ^a   Barth, Stephen ^a   Hammond, Rachel ^a   Elenitsas, Rosalie ^a   Zhang, Paul J ^a   Elder, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphatic invasion; Melanoma; Multispectral imaging; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

PODOPLANIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCAL METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR CELL;

FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; S100 PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 44649088342     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

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