Childhood malignant blue nevus of the ear associated with two intracranial melanocytic tumors - Metastases or neurocutaneous melanosis?

Human Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1292-1296

  Popović, Mara ^a   Dolenc Stražar, Zvezdana ^a   Anžič, Jožica ^b   Luzar, Boštjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

cellular blue nevus of childhood; malignant blue nevus of childhood; malignant melanoma; MM; NCM; neurocutaneous melanosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUE NEVUS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOSIS; METASTASIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHAKOMATOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCALP; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DURA MATER; EAR NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEVUS, BLUE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKULL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 5444262517     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2004.07.012     Document Type: Article

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