Face-to-face diagnosis vs telediagnosis of pigmented skin tumors: A teledermoscopic study

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1467-1471

  Piccolo, Domenico ^a   Smolle, Josef ^b   Wolf, Ingrid H ^b   Peris, Ketty ^a   Hofmann Wellenhog, Ranier ^b   Dell'Eva, Giordana ^c   Burroni, Marco ^c   Chimenti, Sergio ^a   Kerl, Helmut ^b   Soyer, H Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Biomedical Engineering Group   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKIN TUMOR; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; REMOTE CONSULTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032805657     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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