Reflectance confocal microscopy for melanoma and melanocytic lesion assessment

Expert Review of Dermatology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 735-745

  Longo, Caterina ^a   Bassoli, Sara ^a   Farnetani, Francesca ^a   Ferrari, Barbara ^a   Pupelli, Gaia ^a   Seidenari, Stefania ^a   Pellacani, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Melanocytic lesion; Melanoma; Nevi; Reflectance confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

BASAL CELL; BLUE NEVUS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JUVENILE MELANOMA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CANCER;

EID: 70049111039     PISSN: 17469872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17469872.3.6.735     Document Type: Review

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