Melanoma in a 5-year-old child with a giant congenital melanocytic naevus

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 607-608

  Surrenti, Tiziana ^a   Diociaiuti, Andrea ^a   Inserra, Alessandro ^a   Accinni, Antonella ^a   Giraldi, Loredana ^a   Callea, Francesco ^a   El Hachem, May ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; MELAN A; MELANIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN; VINBLASTINE;

CANCER INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONGENITAL NEVUS; DERMIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GIANT CONGENITAL MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NODULE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

BIOPSY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMOSCOPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867810807     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1280     Document Type: Letter

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