Ground-glass nodules found in two patients with malignant melanomas: different growth rate and different histology

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 396-399

  Kang, Mi Jin ^a   Kim, Min A ^a   Park, Chang Min ^a   Lee, Chang Hyun ^a   Goo, Jin Mo ^a   Lee, Hyun Ju ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma; Ground glass nodule; Growth rate; Melanoma; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

BRONCHIOLOALVEOLAR CARCINOMA; GROUND-GLASS NODULE; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; METASTATIC MELANOMA;

DERMATOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

GLASS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FOOT AMPUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOBECTOMY; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISCOLORATION; THORAX SURGERY; TOE AMPUTATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADENOCARCINOMA, BRONCHIOLO-ALVEOLAR; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956150453     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.10.036     Document Type: Article

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