Metastatic melanoma with striking adenocarcinomatous differentiation illustrating phenotypic plasticity in melanoma

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1413-1418

  Jalas, John R ^a   Vemula, Swapna ^b   Bezrookove, Vladimir ^b   Leboit, Philip E ^a,b   Simko, Jeffry P ^a,b,c   Bastian, Boris C ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adenocarcinoma; comparative genomic hybridization; melanoma; transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SKIN TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BIOPSY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 81155161797     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31822280d8     Document Type: Article

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