Primary Malignant Melanoma of Pleura: A Case Report and Literature Review

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 648-652

  Agarwal, Poojan ^a   Nambiyar, Kaniyyapan ^a   Manju Kaushal, ^a   Bhardwaj, Minakshi ^a  

^a DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

congenital nevus; melanoma; pleura

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASCITES; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL NEVUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; MALE; MELANOMA; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY;

EID: 84973351677     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.23497     Document Type: Review

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