Protocol for the examination of specimens from patients with merkel cell carcinoma of the skin

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 341-344

  Rao, Priya ^a   Balzer, Bonnie L ^a   Lemos, Bianca D ^b   Liegeois, Nanette J ^c   McNiff, Jennifer M ^d   Nghiem, Paul ^b   Prieto, Victor G ^e   Smith, M Timothy ^f   Smoller, Bruce Robert ^g   Wick, Mark R ^h   Frishberg, David P ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SKIN TUMOR; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77749321817     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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