Reflectance confocal microscopy of pigmented basal cell carcinoma

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 638-643

  Chan Agero, Anna Liza ^a   Busam, Klaus J ^b   Benvenuto Andrade, Cristiane ^a   Scope, Alon ^a   Gill, Melissa ^b   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^a   González, Salvador ^a,b   Halpern, Allan C ^a  

^a Dermatology   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BRIGHTNESS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITIC CELL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGERHANS CELL; MALE; MELANOCYTE; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; STELLATE CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33645005250     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2005.11.1096     Document Type: Article

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