Merkel cell carcinoma: What is it, what will it do and where will it go? What role should the pathologist play in reporting this information?

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 924-927

  Brown, Jameel Ahmad ^a   Smoller, Bruce R ^a,b  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENICITY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAST CELL; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGIST; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650693793     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01363.x     Document Type: Review

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