Congenital spindle cell naevus with unusual transformation: Proliferative nodule or melanoma?

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-155

  Flux, Katharina ^a   Hartschuh, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital naevus; Melanoma; Proliferative nodule; Spindle cell melanocytes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN COLOR; SKIN NODULE; SPINDLE CELL; SPINDLE CELL NEVUS; TUMOR VOLUME; UMBILICUS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MART-1 ANTIGEN; MELANOMA; MELANOMA-SPECIFIC ANTIGENS; NEVUS, SPINDLE CELL; S100 PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84859580334     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1226     Document Type: Article

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