Fibroepithelioma of Pinkus in continuity with nodular basal cell carcinoma: Supporting evidence of the malignant nature of the disease

Pathology and Oncology Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 155-157

  Ioannidis, Orestis ^b   Papaemmanuil, Stylliani ^a   Kakoutis, Emmanouil ^a   Papadopoulos, George ^a   Chatzopoulos, Stavros ^a   Kotronis, Anastasios ^a   Makrantonakis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a General Regional Hospital 'George Papanikolaou'   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Fibroepithelioma of Pinkus; Nodular; Skin cancer; Trichoblastoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACK; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BLEEDING; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ERYTHEMA; EXCISION; FEMALE; FIBROEPITHELIOMA OF PINKUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NODULAR BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; PRECANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN NODULE; SKIN TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, FIBROEPITHELIAL; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79952693647     PISSN: 12194956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12253-010-9284-4     Document Type: Article

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