Equine skin tumours in 20 horses resembling three variants of human melanocytic naevi

Veterinary Dermatology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 165-173

  Schöniger, Sandra ^a   Summers, Brian A ^b  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLUE NEVUS; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENTED NEVUS; SKIN TUMOR;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; NEVUS, BLUE; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 65649131240     PISSN: 09594493     EISSN: 13653164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3164.2009.00741.x     Document Type: Article

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