The changing mole: Additional warning signs of malignant melanoma

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 145-147

  Brodell, Robert T ^a   Helms, Stephen E ^a  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PUNCH BIOPSY; REVIEW;

ADULT; ERYTHEMA; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PATIENT EDUCATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 7844241231     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1998.10.471     Document Type: Article

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