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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-6-5
pubmed:abstractText
Electron microscopy of an oligomelanotic balloon cell melanoma confirmed the considerable presence of lipid vacuoles in the cytoplasm of the tumours cells. There was also a marked finding of glycogen. The tumour consisted of little cohesive cells only with sporadic specialized intercellular junctions of the desmosome or hemidesmosome type. No tonofibrils could be seen. The cell cytoplasm contained a large amount of cell organelles, while stage II melanosomes were observed only exceptionally. Some of the melanosomes of stage III were difficult to distinguish from the regressively altered cell organelles, particularly from mitochondria and lysosome?. The prevailing findings of stage II melanosomes rather indicated organelles sui generis than phagocyted organelles. There were infrequent neurosecretory granules in some places of the cytoplasm. Quite numerous Langerhans' cells with Bierbeck's granules were demonstrated among the tumour cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0301-2514
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
126
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
83-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Balloon cell melanoma of the skin. Part II: An electron-microscopic study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Faculty hospital and policlinic Olomouc, Czechoslovakia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports