Spitz nevi, atypical spitzoid neoplasms, and spitzoid melanoma

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 311-320

  Zedek, Daniel C ^a   McCalmont, Timothy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical spitzoid tumor; FISH; Genomic; Melanoma; Melanoma of childhood; Spitz nevus

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL SPITZOID TUMOR; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SPITZOID MELANOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MELANOMA; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955545813     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2011.03.008     Document Type: Review

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