Noninvasive Imaging of Skin Tumors

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages 301-310

  Ruocco, Eleonora ^a   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^a   Pellacani, Giovanni ^b   Seidenari, Stefania ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MELANOMA; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 1542349007     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042728-200402002-00012     Document Type: Review

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