Sentinel lymph node biopsy for patients with diagnostically controversial spitzoid melanocytic tumors?

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 253-262

  Busam, Klaus J ^a   Pulitzer, Melissa ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Sentinel lymph node; Spitz nevus

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPERIENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MUELLERIAN DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; NEVUS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 53749099861     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0b013e31818323ac     Document Type: Review

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