Sclerosing nevus with pseudomelanomatous features and regressing melanoma with nevoid features: Letter to the Editor

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 913-915

  Ferrara, Gerardo ^a   Amantea, Ada ^b   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^c   Broganelli, Paolo ^d   Cesinaro, Anna Maria ^e   Donati, Pietro ^f   Pellacani, Giovanni ^g   Zalaudek, Iris ^d   Tomasini, Carlo ^d  

^a G RUMMO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b San Gallicano Research Institute   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e Department of Pathology ^*

^f UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FIBROSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MORPHOLOGY; NEVUS; REMISSION; SCLERODERMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SCLEROSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650676831     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2008.01176.x     Document Type: Letter

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