Neurotropic melanoma of the face invading the maxillary nerve
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
- Vol. 12 (6) , 520-527
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0560.1985.tb00451.x
Abstract
Neurotropic melanoma is a variant of desmoplastic melanoma which, in addition to a spindle-cell vertical component and fibrosis, exhibits a fascicular growth pattern and invades cutaneous nerves. Here we describe a neurotropic melanoma which arose in a small lentigo maligna melanoma and invaded the maxillary nerve for a distance of 5 cm. Ultrastructural features were similar to those of previously described neurotropic melanomas and tumor fascicles contained S-100 protein and neuron-specific enolase immunoreactivity.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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