Coexisting tattoo pigment and metastatic melanoma in the same sentinel lymph node

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 321-325

  Jaigirdar, Adnan A ^a,b   Yeh, Michael W ^a,b   Sharifi, Emile ^a,b   Browne, L Walden ^a,b   Leong, Stanley P L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORING AGENT;

ARTICLE; AXILLA; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN TUMOR; TATTOOING;

AXILLA; COLORING AGENTS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TATTOOING;

EID: 77649197296     PISSN: 12034754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7750.2009.08056     Document Type: Article

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