Utility of step sections: Demonstration of additional pathological findings in biopsy samples initially diagnosed as actinic keratosis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 471-475

  Carag, Henry R ^a   Prieto, Victor G ^a   Yballe, Liza S ^b   Shea, Christopher R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Durham Regional Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN ULCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0034005331     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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