Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus with separate foci of melanoma in situ and atypical melanocytic hyperplasia in a patient positive for human immunodeficiency virus: A case report and review of the literature

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1675-1678

  Fredricks, Jennifer Rose Chapman ^a   Bejarano, Pablo A ^a  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TUMOR BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; MELANOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 54449094772     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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