Spitzoid melanoma

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 545-555

  Kamino, Hideko ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE MELANOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350400594     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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