False-positive cells in sentinel lymph nodes

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 116-119

  Brennick, Jeoffry B ^a   Yan, Shaofeng ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

False positive cells; Immunohistochemical staining; Melanoma; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MELAN A; PROTEIN S 100;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MITOSIS RATE; NEVUS; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SKIN BIOPSY;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 45849137125     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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