pilomatricoma can differentiate not only towards hair matrix and hair cortex, but also follicular infundibulum, outer root sheath and hair bulge

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 734-737

  Kurokawa, Ichiro ^a   Yamanaka, Kei Ichi ^a   Senba, Yuko ^a   Sugisaki, Hitomi ^a   Tsubura, Airo ^b   Kimura, Tetsunori ^c   Mizutani, Hitoshi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Sapporo Dermatopathology Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Filaggrin; Keratin; Pilomatricoma

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 1; CYTOKERATIN 10; CYTOKERATIN 14; CYTOKERATIN 16; CYTOKERATIN 19; FILAGGRIN; KERATIN; KERATIN ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASOPHIL; CELL STRUCTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR ROOT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUNDIBULUM; KERATINIZATION; LETTER; MALE; PILOMATRIXOMA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HAIR; HAIR DISEASES; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOMATRIXOMA; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70449460997     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2008.00835.x     Document Type: Letter

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