High molecular weight-melanoma-associated antigen as a biomarker of desmoplastic melanoma

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-140

  Goto, Yasufumi ^a,c   Arigami, Takaaki ^a   Murali, Rajmohan ^c   Scolyer, Richard A ^c   Tanemura, Atsushi ^a   Takata, Minoru ^b   Turner, Roderick R ^d   Nguyen, Linhda ^a   Nguyen, Tung ^a   Morton, Donald L ^a   Ferone, Soldano ^e   Hoon, Dave S B ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT MELANOMA ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN; MELAN A; MELANOMA ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER INCIDENCE; DESMOPLASTIC MELANOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; MELANOSIS; PIGMENTATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 74349098151     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2009.00660.x     Document Type: Letter

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