Utility of lesion diameter in the clinical diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-474

  Abbasi, Naheed R ^a   Yancovitz, Molly ^a   Gutkowicz Krusin, Dina ^b   Panageas, Katherine S ^c   Mihm, Martin C ^d   Googe, Paul ^e   King, Roy ^e   Prieto, Victor ^f   Osman, Iman ^a   Friedman, Robert J ^a   Rigel, Darrell S ^a   Kopf, Alfred W ^a   Polsky, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Electro Optical Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Knoxville Dermatopathology Laboratory   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COHORT STUDIES; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KERATOSIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42549089369     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.4.469     Document Type: Article

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