Non-invasive preoperative assessment of basal cell carcinoma of nodular and superficial types

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 196-200

  Kuzmina, Natalia ^a   Talme, Toomas ^a   Lapins, Jan ^a   Emtestam, Lennart ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Electrical impedance; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Transepidermal water loss

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELLS; DATA REDUCTION; DIAGNOSIS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SKIN;

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA (BCC); IMAGINARY PART INDEX (IMIX); IMPEDANCE INDICES MAGNITUDE INDEX (MIX); LASER DOPPLER (LD); TRANSEPIDERMAL WATER LOSS (TEWL);

CARCINOGENS;

WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BIOENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REFERENCE VALUE; SKIN WATER LOSS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EID: 22244451671     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2005.00120.x     Document Type: Article

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