Periodic acid Schiff loops and blood lakes associated with metastasis in cutaneous melanoma

Melanoma Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 424-429

  Van Beurden, Anne ^a   Schmitz, Roderick F ^a   Van Dijk, Cornelis M ^b   Baeten, Coen I M ^a  

^a Departments of Surgery   (Netherlands)

^b GROENE HART HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

blood lakes; melanoma; periodic acid Schiff loops; vasculature; vasculogenic mimicry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER TISSUE; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; FEMALE; HEMATOGENOUS METASTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NETHERLANDS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULOGENIC MIMICRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PERIODIC ACID-SCHIFF REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869508489     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: 14735636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0b013e328358b355     Document Type: Article

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