Shrinkage of skin excision specimens and downcoding [5]

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 542-543

  Gregory, Neil ^b   Mulvaney, Michael ^b   Pattison, Theta ^b   Hill, Jerome ^b   Carlson, J Andrew ^a   Goncharuk, Viktor ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DERMATOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MEASUREMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN SURGERY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0345700866     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.139.4.542     Document Type: Letter

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