Localized diffuse melanosis associated with melanoma successfully treated with imiquimod cream 5%: A case report and review of the literature

Cutis

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 145-150

  Fields, Kenneth ^a   Milikowski, Clara ^b   Jewell, Thomas ^c   Fields, Joseph ^d  

^a University of Miami Miller School of Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Naples Community Hospital   (United States)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IMIQUIMOD;

AGED; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; AMINOQUINOLINES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84897787591     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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