The melanoma 'epidemic': Lessons from prostate cancer

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-20

  Glusac, Earl J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dysplastic nevus; epidemic; melanoma; pathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MELANOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; THYROID TUMOR;

FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MELANOMA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84855181549     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2011.01848.x     Document Type: Review

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