The influence of clinical information in the histopathologic diagnosis of melanocytic skin neoplasms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ferrara, Gerardo ^a   Argenyi, Zsolt ^b   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^c   Cerio, Rino ^d   Cerroni, Lorenzo ^e   di Blasi, Arturo ^a   Feudale, Elisa A A ^f   Giorgio, Caterina M ^c   Massone, Cesare ^e   Nappi, Oscar ^g   Tomasini, Carlo ^h   Urso, Carmelo ⁱ   Zalaudek, Iris ^e   Kittler, Harald ^j   Soyer, H Peter ^k  

^a G RUMMO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f Department of Pathology   (Italy)

^g CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

ⁱ SANTA MARIA ANNUNZIATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^k UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOCYTIC SKIN TUMOR; MELANOMA; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; MELANOCYTE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549153099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005375     Document Type: Article

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