A prospective comparison of spectrophotometric intracutaneous analysis to clinical judgment in the diagnosis of nonmelanoma skin cancer

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-211

  Tehrani, Hamid ^a,e   Walls, Joe ^b   Price, Gill ^c   Cotton, Symon ^d   Sassoon, Elaine M ^a   Hall, Per N ^b  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d Astron Clinica Limited   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL PRESTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Diagnosis; Nonmelanoma skin cancer; SIAscope

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC INTRACUTANEOUS ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 33846431256     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000235476.10517.bb     Document Type: Article

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