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Clinical significance of BRAF V600E mutational status in capsular nevi of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with primary cutaneous melanoma.
Human pathology - 1 Jan 2017
Siroy Alan E, Aung Phyu P, Torres-Cabala Carlos A, Tetzlaff Michael T, Nagarajan Priyadharsini, Milton Denái R, Curry Jonathan L, Ivan Doina, Prieto Victor G
Abstract excerpt
Capsular nevi (CN) are clusters of benign melanocytes situated in the capsule of lymph nodes and occur in up to 20% of lympadenectomy specimens. The molecular profile of CN in relation to prognostic parameters in patients with primary cutaneous melanoma (PCM) has not been previously investigated. We assessed BRAF V600E mutation by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in the CN of sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) in PCM patients...
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