The whiteboard marker as a useful tool for the dermoscopic "furrow ink test"

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 145, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1331-1332

  Uhara, Hisashi ^a   Koga, Hiroshi ^a   Takata, Minoru ^a   Saida, Toshiaki ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INK;

DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FURROW INK TEST; HAND PALM; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STAINING;

COLORING AGENTS; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72749118286     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2009.275     Document Type: Letter

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