Classification of cutaneous intravascular breast cancer metastases based on immunolabeling for blood and lymph vessels

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 633-638

  Marneros, Alexander G ^a   Blanco, Fiona ^a   Husain, Sameera ^a   Silvers, David N ^a   Grossman, Marc E ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; carcinoma erysipelatoides; carcinoma telangiectoides; metastasis; podoplanin

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; PACLITAXEL; PODOPLANIN; TAMOXIFEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA ERYSIPELATOIDE; CARCINOMA TELANGIECTOIDE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYSIPELAS; EXTRAVASCULAR SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; TELANGIECTASIA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 61849155775     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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