Aspects of the differential diagnosis of clear-cell lesions of the skin in connection with the rare case of a clear-cell atypical fibroxanthoma

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 205, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 365-370

  Kemmerling, Ralf ^a   Dietze, Otto ^a   Müller, Susanna ^b   Neureiter, Daniel ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clear cell atypical fibroxanthoma; Clear cell lesions; Differential diagnosis; Skin

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CD99 ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROXANTHOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATOACANTHOMA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NOSE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 64449085132     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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