Limitations of high frequency ultrasound in determining the invasiveness of cutaneous malignant melanoma

Melanoma Research

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 395-398

  Partsch, B ^a   Binder, M ^a   Puspok Schwarz M ^a   Wolff, K ^a   Pehamberger, H ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

high frequency ultrasound; histometry; melanoma; sonometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029968986     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008390-199610000-00007     Document Type: Article

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