Ungual melanoma - Controversies in diagnosis and treatment

Dermatologic Therapy

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 510-524

  Haneke, Eckart ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Dermatology Practice Dermaticum   (Germany)

^c Centro Dermatologia Epidermis   (Portugal)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

frequency; histopathology; melanoma; mortality; nail apparatus; treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLIN D1; SILVER NITRATE;

ACRAL LENTIGINOUS MELANOMA; AGE; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHEMOSURGERY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FINGER; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HALLUX; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INGROWN NAIL; JAPAN; KERATOACANTHOMA; KOREA; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHENOID; LOCAL EXCISION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PIGMENTATION; PREVALENCE; PYOGENIC GRANULOMA; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINDLE CELL; TAIWAN; UNGUAL MELANOMA; WIDE EXCISION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NAIL DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84870515104     PISSN: 13960296     EISSN: 15298019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8019.2012.01515.x     Document Type: Article

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