Malignant acanthosis nigricans--a para-endocrine syndrome?
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- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Medical Journals Sweden AB in Acta Dermato-Venereologica
- Vol. 57 (2) , 169-172
- https://doi.org/10.2340/0001555557169172
Abstract
A case is reported of acanthosis nigricans associated with a gastric carcinoma. The gastric cancer was of the diffuse, infiltrating type. Many tumour cells were identified by means of histochemistry and electron microscopy as neoplastic enterochromaffin-like cells. It is suggested that cancers associated with acanthosis nigricans might constitute a certain group of carcinomas in which parts of the tumour cells arise from the APUD-series of endocrine cells.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: