Early stages of melanoma on the limbs of high-risk patients: Clinical, dermoscopic, reflectance confocal microscopy and histopathological characterization for improved recognition

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-146

  Carrera, Cristina ^a   Palou, Josep ^a   Malvehy, Josep ^a   Segura, Sonia ^a   Aguilera, Paula ^a   Salerni, Gabriel ^a   Lovatt, Louise ^a   Puig Butillé, Joan A ^a   Alós, Llùcia ^a   Puig, Susana ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atypical mole syndrome; Dermatoscopy; Dermoscopy; Familial melanoma; Melanoma; Naevus; Reflectance confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EARLY CANCER; EPIDERMIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENTIGO; LIMB; MALE; MELANOMA; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; DERMOSCOPY; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS SYNDROME; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79952413717     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1021     Document Type: Article

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