A rare case of vulvar melanoma in a young woman who frequently tanned in tanning parlors

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 347-348

  Pawelec, Malgorzata ^a   Karmowski, Andrzej ^a   Karmowski, Mikolaj ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VULVA CARCINOMA;

BEAUTY CULTURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VULVA; VULVAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949349621     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2009.395     Document Type: Letter

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