Remodeling of the dermoepidermal junction in superficial spreading melanoma: Insights gained from correlation of dermoscopy, reflectance confocal microscopy, and histopathologic analysis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1644-1649

  Scope, Alon ^b   Zalaudek, Iris ^b   Ferrara, Gerardo ^b   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^b   Braun, Ralph P ^b   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; EDITORIAL; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; STROMA; TUMOR CELL;

DERMIS; DERMOSCOPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58049215282     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2008.504     Document Type: Editorial

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