Using a simple Jewelers loupe as a dermoscopic instrument

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 617-620

  Kaliyadan, Feroze ^a,b  

^a KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BOWEN DISEASE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; JEWELER LOUPE; LETTER; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OTOSCOPE; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ECONOMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; JEWELRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY;

DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; JEWELRY; MICROSURGERY;

EID: 80052535821     PISSN: 03786323     EISSN: 09733922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.84092     Document Type: Letter

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