New approach to the evaluation of skin color of pigmentary lesions using Skin Tone Color Scale

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 441-446

  Konishi, Natsuko ^a   Kawada, Akira ^a   Morimoto, Yoshinobu ^b   Watake, Asami ^b   Matsuda, Hiromasa ^a   Oiso, Naoki ^a   Kawara, Shigeru ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pigmentary lesion; Skin color; Skin Tone Color Scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLOASMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENTIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PIGMENT DISORDER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SKIN COLOR; SKIN TONE COLOR SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASCORBIC ACID; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DERMATOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASERS; LENTIGO; MELANOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

EID: 34250788568     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2007.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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