Cutaneous melanoma: Digital dermoscopy -essential tool for positive diagnosis

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 991-994

  Simionescu, Olga ^a   Costache, Mariana ^b   Testori, Alessandro ^c  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

in vivo microscopy; Melanocytic nests; Melanoma; Pseudopodes; Risk factors; Tumoral invasion; Vasculature; Veil

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35748933671     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2006.tb00540.x     Document Type: Article

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