Dermoscopic island: A new descriptor for thin melanoma

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1257-1262

  Borsari, Stefania ^a   Longo, Caterina ^a   Ferrari, Chiara ^a   Benati, Elisa ^a   Bassoli, Sara ^a   Schianchi, Simona ^a   Giusti, Francesca ^a   Cesinaro, Anna Maria ^b   Pellacani, Giovanni ^a   Seidenari, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOSCOPIC ISLAND; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN DEFECT;

DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78349289280     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.311     Document Type: Article

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