Current and emerging technologies in melanoma diagnosis: the state of the art

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-45

  Psaty, Estee L ^a   Halpern, Allan C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; METHYLENE BLUE; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR TYPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; TELEDERMOSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOTAL BODY PHOTOGRAPHY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASOUND;

DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 57449108485     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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