Dermoscopy in general dermatology

Dermatology

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-18

  Zalaudek, Iris ^a,b   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^b   Di Stefani, Alessandro ^c   Ferrara, Gerardo ^d   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^e   Hofmann Wellenhof, Rainer ^a   Soyer, H Peter ^a   Braun, Ralph ^f   Kerl, Helmut ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d G RUMMO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dermoscopy; Diagnosis; Nonpigmented skin lesions; Vessels

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NAIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ALGORITHMS; DERMATOLOGY; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 28844475096     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089015     Document Type: Review

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