Surgical strategies and histopathologic issues in the management of lentigo maligna

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1456-1458

  Stretch, Jonathan R ^a,b   Scolyer, Richard A ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; IMIQUIMOD;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CAUCASIAN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EDITORIAL; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EXCISION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LENTIGO; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; ONCOGENE N RAS; PUNCH BIOPSY; SUN EXPOSURE;

HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67349205087     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0433-5     Document Type: Editorial

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