Spotted hyperpigmentation: Disfigured melanosomes in melanocytes and keratinocytes

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 876-878

  Oiso, N ^a   Tsuruta, D ^b   Imanishi, H ^b   Amatsu, A ^a   Kobayashi, H ^b   Kawara, S ^a   Kawada, A ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ABDOMEN; CASE REPORT; CELL MATURATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; DISEASE DURATION; DOWLING DEGOS DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPOTTED HYPERPIGMENTATION;

BIOPSY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; KERATINOCYTES; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSOMES;

EID: 45249113558     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2007.02415.x     Document Type: Letter

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