Unusual presentation of metastatic amelanotic melanoma of unknown primary origin as a solitary breast lump

Melanoma Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 447-450

  Roy, Somak ^a,b   Dhingra, Kajal ^a   Mandal, Shramana ^a   Khurana, Nita ^a  

^a MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Noida ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Amelanotic melanoma; Breast; Metastatic; Unknown primary

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSCOPY; NIPPLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN EXAMINATION;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; S100 PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 56849084452     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0b013e328317f04b     Document Type: Article

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