Dermatoscopy of flat pigmented facial lesions: Diagnostic challenge between pigmented actinic keratosis and lentigo maligna

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1212-1217

  Akay, B N ^a   Kocyigit, P ^a   Heper, A O ^a   Erdem, C ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

dermatoscopy; facial pigmented skin lesions; lentigo maligna; lichen planus like keratosis; pigmented actinic keratosis

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FACE DISORDER; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATOSIS; LICHEN PLANUS LIKE KERATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; PGIMENTED ACTINIC KERATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACE; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649677900     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2010.10025.x     Document Type: Article

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