Cutaneous lymphangioma circumscriptum: Frog spawn on the skin

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1290-1295

  Patel, Gopal A ^a   Schwartz, Robert A ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PICIBANIL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BLEEDING; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CAUTERIZATION; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYOTHERAPY; CUTANEOUS LYMPHANGIOMA CIRCUMSCRIPTUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; LYMPHANGIOMA; PATHOGENESIS; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; SECONDARY INFECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN SURGERY; SUPERINFECTION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LYMPHANGIOMA; LYMPHANGIOMA, CYSTIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 71049177466     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2009.04226.x     Document Type: Review

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