Elliptical Excisions: Variations and the Eccentric Parallelogram

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 176-180

  Goldberg, Leonard H ^a   Alam, Murad ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Departments of Dermatology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPTICAL EXCISION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EXCISION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SKIN SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE; ARTICLE; DERMATOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SKIN; SUTURE;

DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; SKIN; SUTURES;

EID: 1442303073     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.140.2.176     Document Type: Review

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