Indolent CD8+ lymphoid proliferation of the ear: A phenotypic variant of the small-medium pleomorphic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma?

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-84

  Beltraminelli, Helmut ^a,b   Müllegger, Robert ^c   Cerroni, Lorenzo ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Dermatology   (Austria)

^d Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie und Venerologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EAR; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEOMORPHIC CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; POLYCHONDRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGED; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EAR, EXTERNAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 71049159158     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01278.x     Document Type: Article

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