Letter: "Mushroom-cloud sign" of melanoma

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1546-1548

  Mahlberg, Matthew J ^a   Hwa, Charlotte ^a   Kopf, Alfred W ^a   Stein, Jennifer A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LETTER; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80053912312     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.02111.x     Document Type: Letter

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