Preoperative ultrasonic assessment of thin melanocytic skin lesions using a 100-MHz ultrasound transducer: A comparative study

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 818-824

  Gambichler, Thilo ^a   Moussa, Georg ^a   Bahrenberg, Katharina ^a   Vogt, Michael ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a   Weyhe, Dirk ^a   Altmeyer, Peter ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34347343802     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.33175.x     Document Type: Article

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