Is pediatric melanoma always malignant?

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 3910-3913

  Coit, Daniel G ^a   Ernstoff, Marc S ^b   Busam, Klaus J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CLEAR CELL SARCOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC GAIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JUVENILE MELANOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; METASTATIC MELANOMA; PEDIATRIC MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887081250     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28291     Document Type: Review

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