Reflectance confocal microscopy criteria for squamous cell carcinomas and actinic keratoses

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 766-772

  Rishpon, Ayelet ^a,b   Kim, Nancy ^c   Scope, Alon ^d   Porges, Leeor ^b   Oliviero, Margaret C ^b,c   Braun, Ralph P ^e   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^d   Fox, Christi Alessi ^f   Rabinovitz, Harold S ^b,c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SKIN AND CANCER ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f Lucid Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATOACANTHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STRATUM CORNEUM; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67650838150     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2009.134     Document Type: Article

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