In vivo confocal scanning laser microscopy of benign lentigines: Comparison to conventional histology and in vivo characteristics of lentigo maligna

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-97

  Langley, Richard G B ^a   Burton, Elizabeth ^a   Walsh, Noreen ^b   Propperova, Iva ^a   Murray, Scott J ^a  

^a Division of Dermatology   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LENTIGO; MALE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; LENTIGO; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745010016     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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