Prognostic value of computer-assisted morphological and morphometrical analysis for detecting the recurrence tendency of basal cell carcinoma

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Cheretis, Christos ^a   Angelidou, Eirini ^a   Dietrich, Frank ^a   Politi, Ekaterini ^b   Kiaris, Hippokrates ^c   Koutselini, Helen ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Nuclear morphometry; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE SECTION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43549112319     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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