Langerhans cells and melanocytes share similar morphologic features under in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy: A challenge for melanoma diagnosis

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 452-462

  Hashemi, Pantea ^a   Pulitzer, Melissa P ^a   Scope, Alon ^a   Kovalyshyn, Ivanka ^a   Halpern, Allan C ^a   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CD1a; Langerhans cells; Melan A; pagetoid melanocytes; pagetoid pattern; reflectance confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENSITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LANGERHANS CELL; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGERHANS CELLS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857449568     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2011.02.033     Document Type: Article

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