Benign versus malignant parakeratosis: A nuclear morphometry study

Modern Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 799-803

  Song, Jie ^a   Shea, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear morphometry; Parakeratosis; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN PARAKERATOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT PARAKERATOSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MORPHOMETRY; PARAKERATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL NUCLEUS SHAPE; CELL NUCLEUS SIZE; DERMATITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PARAKERATOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSORIASIS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WARTS;

EID: 77953129877     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2010.52     Document Type: Article

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