The significance of eccentric and central hyperpigmentation, multifocal hyper/hypopigmentation, and the multicomponent pattern in melanocytic lesions lacking specific dermoscopic features of melanoma

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1440-1444

  Arevalo, Alda ^a   Altamura, Davide ^b   Avramidis, Michelle ^c   Blum, Andreas ^e   Menzies, Scott ^c,d  

^a Departments of Dermatology   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SYDNEY CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^d University of Sydney   (Australia)

^e Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

AUSTRALIA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 56549108749     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.11.1440     Document Type: Article

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