In vivo confocal scanning laser microscopy of a series of congenital melanocytic nevi suggestive of having developed malignant melanoma

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1401-1412

  Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^a   Charles, Carlos A ^b   Busam, Klaus J ^a   Rajadhyaksha, Milind ^a,c   Lee, Grace ^d   Clark Loeser, Lesley ^e   Halpern, Allan C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ST JOHN S MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EPIDERMIS CELL; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; NEVUS CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 27944455291     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.141.11.1401     Document Type: Article

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