Three roots of melanoma

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1375-1379

  Zalaudek, Iris ^a   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^b   Scope, Alon ^b   Leinweber, Bernd ^b   Ferrara, Gerardo ^b   Hofmann Wellenhof, Rainer ^b   Pellacani, Giovanni ^b   Soyer, H Peter ^b   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STEM CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR; SUPERFICIAL SPREADING MELANOMA; TUMOR GROWTH;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 54349113554     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.10.1375     Document Type: Editorial

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