Malignant Melanoma with Probable Smooth Muscle Differentiation

Malignant melanomas occasionally exhibit various divergent differentiation types. Of these, smooth muscle differentiation is extremely rare; only 1 case has been reported in the literature until recently. We report an extremely rare case of malignant melanoma with smooth muscle differentiation, whic...

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Autores principales: Morimoto, Aya, Asai, Jun, Wakabayashi, Yusuke, Komori, Satoshi, Hanada, Keiji, Takenaka, Hideya, Konishi, Eiichi, Katoh, Norito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: January, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3934611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24575006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000358375
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Sumario:Malignant melanomas occasionally exhibit various divergent differentiation types. Of these, smooth muscle differentiation is extremely rare; only 1 case has been reported in the literature until recently. We report an extremely rare case of malignant melanoma with smooth muscle differentiation, which appeared as an amelanotic reddish nodule on the left toe.

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