CK7+/CK20 - Merkel cell carcinoma presenting as inguinal subcutaneous nodules with subsequent epidermotropic metastasis

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 438-439

  Tsai, Yen Yun ^a   Hsiao, Cheng Hsiang ^b   Chiu, Hsien Ching ^b   Chen, Ming ^a   Tsai, Tsen Fang ^b  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN; CYTOKERATIN 7; ENOLASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; CYTOKERATIN 20; KRT20 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KRT7 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

AGED; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTRITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LETTER; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MITOSIS; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TUMOR VOLUME; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATIN-20; KERATIN-7; MALE; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77954919313     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0881     Document Type: Letter

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