Correlation with digital dermoscopic images can help dermatopathologists to diagnose equivocal skin tumours

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 546-551

  Bauer, J ^a   Leinweber, B ^b   Metzler, G ^a   Blum, A ^a   Hofmann Wellenhof, R ^b   Leitz, N ^a   Dietz, K ^a   Soyer, H P ^b   Garbe, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ambiguous tumours; Dermatopathology; Dermatoscopy; Dermoscopy; Teledermatology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CANCER SURGERY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL IMAGING; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELERADIOLOGY;

EID: 33747060419     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2006.07342.x     Document Type: Article

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