Clinical usefulness of variable-frequency ultrasound in localized lesions of the skin

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 247-256

  Wortsman, Ximena ^a   Wortsman, Jacobo ^b  

^a Clinica Hospital del Profesor and Clinica Servet Santiago   (Chile)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dermatology; imaging; skin; sonography; tumors; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BURSITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GLOMUS TUMOR; GRANULOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PERFORMANCE; PILOMATRIXOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN METASTASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUPPURATIVE HIDRADENITIS; SYNOVIAL CYST; SYNOVITIS; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASOUND; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HEMANGIOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; PILONIDAL SINUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; WARTS;

EID: 73649143476     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2009.06.016     Document Type: Article

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