Preoperative Measurement of Thickness of Cutaneous Melanoma Using High-Resolution 20 MHz Ultrasound Imaging: A Monocenter Prospective Study and Systematic Review of the Literature

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1411-1420

  Machet, Laurent ^a,b,c   Belot, Véronique ^b   Naouri, Michael ^b   Boka, Michel ^b   Mourtada, Youssef ^b   Giraudeau, Bruno ^a   Laure, Boris ^b   Perrinaud, Adeline ^b,c   Machet, Marie Christine ^b   Vaillant, Loïc ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

^c NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Agreement; Breslow thickness; Melanoma; Pathology; Skin; Surgical margins; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AGREEMENT; BRESLOW THICKNESS; MELANOMA; SURGICAL MARGINS; ULTRASOUND;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); HISTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL); ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PHOTOAGING; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 68949192785     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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