Clinical applications of reflectance confocal microscopy in the management of cutaneous tumors;Aplicaciones clínicas de la microscopía confocal de reflectancia en el manejo de los tumores cutáneos

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 528-531

  González, Salvador ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cutaneous tumors; Noninvasive technology; Reflectance confocal microscopy; Virtual biopsy

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CELL; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKIN TUMOR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BIOPSY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 51849101263     PISSN: 00017310     EISSN: 15782190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1578-2190(08)70309-3     Document Type: Article

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