My approach to atypical melanocytic lesions

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1121-1131

  Culpepper, K S ^a,b   Granter, S R ^b   McKee, P H ^b  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRAL NEVUS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL NEVUS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; ESTHETICS; GENITAL TYPE NEVUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT NEVUS; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; WORKLOAD;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS SYNDROME; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 8444251048     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2003.008516     Document Type: Review

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