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Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report

Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor is a rare subtype of benign dermal melanocytic tumors. Its histopathologic features resemble those of paraganglioma, but the immunostaining characteristics are those of melanocytic lesions. We report a case of a 60-year-old male with a paraganglioma-like d...

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Autores principales: Sarma, Deba P, Teruya, Bryan, Wang, Bo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2488318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18638402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-48
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description Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor is a rare subtype of benign dermal melanocytic tumors. Its histopathologic features resemble those of paraganglioma, but the immunostaining characteristics are those of melanocytic lesions. We report a case of a 60-year-old male with a paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor of his left cheek and briefly review the English literature.
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spelling pubmed-24883182008-07-29 Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report Sarma, Deba P Teruya, Bryan Wang, Bo Cases J Case Report Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor is a rare subtype of benign dermal melanocytic tumors. Its histopathologic features resemble those of paraganglioma, but the immunostaining characteristics are those of melanocytic lesions. We report a case of a 60-year-old male with a paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor of his left cheek and briefly review the English literature. BioMed Central 2008-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2488318/ /pubmed/18638402 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-48 Text en Copyright © 2008 Sarma et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sarma, Deba P
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Wang, Bo
Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report
title Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report
title_full Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report
title_fullStr Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report
title_short Paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report
title_sort paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2488318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18638402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-48
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