Diagnosis and categorization of acral melanocytic lesions using teledermoscopy

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 346-350

  Piccolo, Domenico ^a   Soyer, H Peter ^b   Chimenti, Sergio ^c   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^d   Bartenjev, Igor ^e   Hofmann Wellenhof, Rainer ^b   Marchetti, Raffaele ^a   Oguchi, Shinji ^f   Pagnanelli, Gianluca ^c   Pizzichetta, Maria Antonietta ^g   Saida, Toshiaki ^f   Salvemini, Isabella ^h   Tanaka, Masaru ⁱ   Wolf, Ingrid H ^b   Zgavec, Borut ^e   Peris, Ketty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^f SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g Centro Oncologico di Riferimento   (Italy)

^h Centro Oncologico di Riferimento ^*

ⁱ KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; E-MAIL; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 19944426827     PISSN: 1357633X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/1357633042602017     Document Type: Article

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