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
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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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author Morimoto, Aya
Asai, Jun
Wakabayashi, Yusuke
Komori, Satoshi
Hanada, Keiji
Takenaka, Hideya
Konishi, Eiichi
Katoh, Norito
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Asai, Jun
Wakabayashi, Yusuke
Komori, Satoshi
Hanada, Keiji
Takenaka, Hideya
Konishi, Eiichi
Katoh, Norito
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description 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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spelling pubmed-39346112014-02-26 Malignant Melanoma with Probable Smooth Muscle Differentiation Morimoto, Aya Asai, Jun Wakabayashi, Yusuke Komori, Satoshi Hanada, Keiji Takenaka, Hideya Konishi, Eiichi Katoh, Norito Case Rep Dermatol Published online: January, 2014 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. S. Karger AG 2014-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3934611/ /pubmed/24575006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000358375 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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Malignant Melanoma with Probable Smooth Muscle Differentiation
title Malignant Melanoma with Probable Smooth Muscle Differentiation
title_full Malignant Melanoma with Probable Smooth Muscle Differentiation
title_fullStr Malignant Melanoma with Probable Smooth Muscle Differentiation
title_full_unstemmed Malignant Melanoma with Probable Smooth Muscle Differentiation
title_short Malignant Melanoma with Probable Smooth Muscle Differentiation
title_sort malignant melanoma with probable smooth muscle differentiation
topic Published online: January, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3934611/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000358375
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