Syringotropic melanoma: A variant of melanoma with prominent involvement of eccrine apparatus and risk of deep dermal invasion

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-156

  Zembowicz, Artur ^a   Kafanas, Antonios ^b  

^a HARVARD VANGUARD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b General District Hospital of Serres   (Greece)

Author keywords

melanoma; melanoma staging; syringotropic

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEEL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE; LENTIGO; MALE; MELANOMA; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCALP; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN BLEEDING; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN SURFACE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SYRINGOMA; SYRINGOTROPIC MELANOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84859102851     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: 15330311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DAD.0b013e318227c90d     Document Type: Article

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