Morphologic features of melanophages under in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 492-498

  Guitera, Pascale ^a   Li, Ling Xi L ^a   Scolyer, Richard A ^a,b   Menzies, Scott W ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHILD; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOSIS; LICHEN PLANUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; LICHEN PLANUS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952621305     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2009.388     Document Type: Article

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