Morphometric analyses of elastic tissue fibers in dermatofibroma: Clues to etiopathogenesis?

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1083-1088

  Pongpudpunth, Marinya ^b   Keady, Michelle ^b   Mahalingam, Meera ^a,b  

^a FRCPath   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DERMATOFIBROMA; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTIC TISSUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; PATHOGENESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCAR;

CICATRIX; ELASTIC TISSUE; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 69449108359     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01237.x     Document Type: Article

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