Two Congenital cases of pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma studied by fluorescent in situ hybridization for melanocytic tumors: Case reports and review of these recent topics

Dermatology

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-106

  Battistella, M ^a   Prochazkova Carlotti, M ^c   Berrebi, D ^b   Bennaceur, S ^b   Edan, C ^d   Riffaud, L ^d   Rutten A ^e   Fraitag, S ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e Dermatopathologische Gemeinschaftspraxis   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carney complex; Epithelioid blue nevus; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Melanoma, animal type; Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma, congenital

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; CD68 ANTIGEN; MELAN A;

ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CANCER SURGERY; CARNEY COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 6; CONGENITAL TUMOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; KNEE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MITOSIS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; PIGMENTED EPITHELIOID MELANOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCALP; SKIN DEFECT;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MELANOMA; NEVUS, BLUE; PIGMENTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRISOMY;

EID: 77956341536     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000314160     Document Type: Article

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