The American Journal of dermatopathology.
Publisher:
Masson Publishing USA.. Hagerstown, MD : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Frequency: Eight no. a year, 2009-
Country: United States
Language: English
Start Year:1979 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0193-1091 (Print) 1533-0311 (Electronic) 0193-1091 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 7911005 |
| (DNLM): | A24095000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 05058734 |
| Coden: | AJDODB |
| Classification: | W1 AM45NH |
Animal type melanoma: a report of a case with balloon-cell change and sentinel lymph node metastasis. Animal type melanoma is a rare histopathologic variant of melanoma characterized by sheets and nodules of heavily pigmented epithelioid melanocytes that involve the entire thickness of the dermis. This human neoplasm mimics melanocytic neoplasms seen in gray horses and laboratory animals; thus, is termed animal type melanoma. It is quite rare and, with only a few reported cases, its biological behavior is not well understood. We report an example of animal type melanoma on the back of a 27-year-old man. The lesion showed areas of melanoma in situ, which ruled out the possibility of metastatic ...
A giant congenital pigmented nevus in a horse. Pigmented nevi have not been widely recognized in domesticated animals. We describe, for the first time, a giant congenital pigmented nevus in a horse. Because of a prominent neuroid component within the lesion, neurofibromatosis was the major differential diagnosis.