Neurocutaneous melanosis with malignant melanoma of the leptomeninges
M Akhter1, M El-Senoussi, U M Chowdhary
1Chief Division of Electron Microscopy, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Consultant Radiotherapist, Department of Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh; and Associate Professor and Consultant, Department of Neurosurgery, King Fahad Hospital of the King Faisal University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
Annals of Saudi Medicine
|December 18, 2010
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