Amelanotic subungual melanoma after trauma: An unusual clinical presentation

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Rangwala, Sophia ^a   Hunt, Christine ^a   Modi, Gunjan ^a   Krishnan, Bhuvaneswari ^a   Orengo, Ida ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; MELAN A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; AMELANOTIC SUBUNGUAL MELANOMA; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FINGER AMPUTATION; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MITOSIS INDEX; NAIL BED; NAIL DISEASE; PARONYCHIA; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; PUNCH BIOPSY; SPINDLE CELL; SUPPURATION; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; NAIL; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960709993     PISSN: 10872108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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