Solitary small- to medium-sized pleomorphic T-cell nodules of undetermined significance: Clinical, histopathological, immunohistochemical and molecular analysis of 26 cases

Dermatology

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-47

  Leinweber, Bernd ^a   Beltraminelli, Helmut ^a   Kerl, Helmut ^a   Cerroni, Lorenzo ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma; Small to medium sized pleomorphic T cell lymphoma; T cell pseudolymphoma

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CAUTERIZATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUNCH BIOPSY; RECEPTOR GENE; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHILD; FEMALE; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR GAMMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651095886     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000212118     Document Type: Article

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