Level of confidence in diagnosis: Clinical examination versus dermoscopy examination

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 738-744

  Benvenuto Andrade, Cristiane ^a   Dusza, Stephen W ^a   Hay, Jennifer L ^a   Agero, Anna Liza C ^a   Halpern, Allan C ^a   Kopf, Alfred W ^a   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPLASIA; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN DISEASE;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DERMATOLOGY; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 33646690748     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32149.x     Document Type: Article

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