Dealing with Melanonychia

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-54

  Tosti, Antonella ^a   Piraccini, Bianca Maria ^a   de Farias, Débora Cadore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ARSENIC; CHLOROQUINE; GOLD SALT; LAMIVUDINE; MELANIN; MEPACRINE; MERCURY; METAL DERIVATIVE; PSORALEN DERIVATIVE; THALLIUM; ZIDOVUDINE;

CELL HYPERPLASIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LENTIGO; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MELANONYCHIA; NAIL BED; NAIL DISEASE; NAIL PIGMENTATION; NEVUS; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; REVIEW; SUBUNGUAL MELANOMA;

DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NAIL DISEASES; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 63049102735     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2008.12.004     Document Type: Review

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