Reflectance-mode confocal microscopy of pigmented skin lesions-improvement in melanoma diagnostic specificity

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 979-985

  Pellacani, Giovanni ^a   Cesinaro, Anna Maria ^a   Seidenari, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SKIN DEFECT;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEVUS, EPITHELIOID AND SPINDLE CELL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 27944457247     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2005.08.022     Document Type: Article

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