Weight of decision-making impairs clinical assessment of melanocytic lesions

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-18

  Gächter, Tamara ^a   Mühleisen, Beda ^a   Schärer, Leo ^a   Dummer, Reinhard ^a   Burg, Günter ^a   Hofbauer, Günther F L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN SKIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DERMATOLOGIST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DERMATOLOGY; NEVUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, SEBORRHEIC; MELANOMA; NEVUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247861000     PISSN: 12034754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7750.2007.00007     Document Type: Article

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