Margin detection using digital dermatoscopy improves the performance of traditional surgical excision of basal cell carcinomas of the head and neck

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 280-285

  Carducci, Mauro ^a   Bozzetti, Marcella ^a   Foscolo, Anna Maria ^b   Betti, Roberto ^c  

^a Centro Ortopedico di Quadrante Hospital   (Italy)

^b Castelli Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; DIGITAL DERMATOSCOPY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELANGIECTASIA; ULCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951915620     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01870.x     Document Type: Article

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