Skin Imaging With Reflectance Confocal Microscopy

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-43

  Nehal, Kishwer S ^a,b   Gareau, Dan ^a   Rajadhyaksha, Milind ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

confocal; imaging; microscopy; noninvasive; reflectance; skin

Indexed keywords

CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 43249092581     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2008.01.006     Document Type: Review

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