Spitz nevus and atypical spitzoid neoplasm

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-173

  Miteva, Maria ^a   Lazova, Rossitza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL SPITZOID NEOPLASM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE MELANOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SPITZOID MALIGNANT MELANOMA;

DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78049489578     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2010.06.003     Document Type: Review

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