CD34+ fibrocytes in melanocytic nevi and malignant melanomas of the skin

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 453, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 485-489

  Wessel, Cordula ^a   Westhoff, Christina C ^b   Nowak, Katharina ^b   Moll, Ingrid ^a   Barth, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

SMA; CD34; Malignant melanoma; Melanocytic nevus; SPARC; Stroma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; OSTEONECTIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; FIBROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MYOFIBROBLAST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN; STROMA; STROMA CELL;

ACTINS; ANTIGENS, CD34; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CYSTEINE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; OSTEONECTIN; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 54249145025     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-008-0667-9     Document Type: Article

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