Calcifications associated with basal cell carcinoma: Prevalence, characteristics, and correlations

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 557-564

  Slodkowska, Elzbieta A ^a   Cribier, Bernard ^b   Peltre, Bernard ^b   Jones, David M ^a   Carlson, J Andrew ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

basal cell carcinoma; follicular differentiation; microcalcifications; pathogenesis; tumor marker

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; KERATIN; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; PROTEIN K31; PROTEIN K32; PROTEIN K35; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXC13; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN CALCIFICATION; SWEAT GLAND; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955172854     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DAD.0b013e3181ca65e2     Document Type: Article

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