A case of desmoplastic melanoma that was difficult to distinguish from malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor

• Main Authors: Kenji Yorita (Author), Satoka Yoshii (Author), Naoto Kuroda (Author), Yuichi Senzaki (Author), Koji Nakagawa (Author), Jun Iwata (Author), Takanori Hirose (Author), Ichiro Murakami (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The clinical and pathological diagnosis of desmoplastic melanoma is difficult, because almost 50% of desmoplastic melanoma cases involve non-pigmented lesions and the tumor cells can resemble fibroblasts or Schwannian cells based on their frequent amelanotic features. Moreover, desmoplastic melanoma...