Diagnosis of nonmelanoma skin cancer/keratinocyte carcinoma: A review of diagnostic accuracy of nonmelanoma skin cancer diagnostic tests and technologies

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1158-1174

  Mogensen, Mette ^a   Jemec, Gregor B E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BOWEN DISEASE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBASE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EYELID TUMOR; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATINOCYTE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; MELANOMA; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NOSE CANCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOMA; SPECTROSCOPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; TERAHERTZ PULSED IMAGING; VALIDITY;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34848894258     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.33251.x     Document Type: Article

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