Long-term outcome of spitz-type melanocytic tumors

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 147, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1173-1179

  Sepehr, Alireza ^a,b   Chao, Elizabeth ^a   Trefrey, Brie ^a,c   Blackford, Amanda ^e   Duncan, Lyn McDivitt ^a,d   Flotte, Thomas J ^f   Sober, Arthur ^a,c   Mihm Jr , Martin C ^a,d   Tsao, Hensin ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL SPITZ TUMOR; BRAF GENE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INVASIVE MELANOMA; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NRAS GENE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SPITZOID MELANOMA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THICKNESS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BOSTON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054772259     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2011.170     Document Type: Article

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