Nevus type in dermoscopy is related to skin type in white persons

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 351-356

  Zalaudek, Iris ^a   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^b   Mordente, Ines ^b   Moscarella, Elvira ^b   Corona, Rosamaria ^c   Sera, Francesco ^d   Blum, Andreas ⁱ   Cabo, Horacio ^e   Di Stefani, Alessandro ^a   Hofmann Wellenhof, Rainer ^a   Johr, Robert ^f   Langford, David ^g   Malvehy, Josep ^h   Kolm, Isabel ^h   Sgambato, Anna ^b   Puig, Susana ^h   Soyer, H Peter ^a   Kerl, Helmut ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Molecheck   (New Zealand)

^h HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; NEVUS; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DERMOSCOPY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33947534478     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.143.3.351     Document Type: Article

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