A M Gown et al.
The American journal of pathology, 123(2), 195-203 (1986-05-01)
The authors have generated monoclonal antibodies to an extract of melanoma. When tested on a variety of fixed, embedded sections of malignant tumors, one antibody (HMB-45) reacted with 60 of 62 melanomas and none of 168 nonmelanomas (carcinomas, lymphomas, and