Malignant blue nevus: Clinicopathologically similar to melanoma

American Surgeon

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 651-656

  Kachare, Swapnil Dilip ^a   Agle, Steven C ^a   Englert, Zachary P ^a   Zervos, Emmanuel E ^a,b   Vohra, Nasreen A ^a,b   Wong, Jan H ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Timothy L ^a,b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLUE NEVUS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEVUS, BLUE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; SEER PROGRAM; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879652090     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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