Comparing in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy, dermoscopy, and histology of clear-cell acanthoma

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 952-959

  Ardigo, Marco ^a   Buffon, Rosana Bortoli ^b   Scope, Alon ^c   Cota, Carlo ^a   Buccini, Pierluigi ^b   Berardesca, Enzo ^b   Pellacani, Giovanni ^d   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^c   Gill, Melissa ^e  

^a SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e QUEST DIAGNOSTICS NICHOLS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOMA; ACANTHOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER SURGERY; CAPILLARY; CLEAR CELL ACANTHOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PAPILLOMATOSIS; PARAKERATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACANTHOMA; AGED; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 66449126800     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01162.x     Document Type: Article

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