Reflectance confocal microscopy of facial lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma: A preliminary study

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1307-1316

  Ahlgrimm Siess, V ^a   Massone, C ^a   Scope, A ^b   Fink Puches, R ^a   Richtig, E ^a   Wolf, I H ^a   Koller, S ^a   Gerger, A ^a   Smolle, J ^a   Hofmann Wellenhof, R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dermoscopy; In vivoconfocal scanning laser microscopy; Lentigo maligna; Melanoma; Reflectance confocal microscopy; Sun damaged skin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITIC CELL; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72649095988     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2009.09289.x     Document Type: Article

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