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A 3D Organotypic Melanoma Spheroid Skin Model
Published on: May 18, 2018
Malignant melanoma of the anal canal
1Research Department, St. Mark's Hospital, London.
Journal of Clinical Pathology
|March 1, 1963
Abstract:
The clinical and pathological features of 15 cases of malignant melanoma of the anal canal are described. It would appear from this study that these tumours arise from squamous epithelium lining that part of the anal canal at or just above the line of the anal valves.
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