Site-dependent actinic skin damage as risk factor for melanoma in a central European population

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 234-242

  Wendt, Judith ^a   Schanab, Oliver ^a   Binder, Michael ^a   Pehamberger, Hubert ^a   Okamoto, Ichiro ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Actinic damage; Central Europe; Melanoma risk; Pigmentation phenotype; Solar lentigo; Wrinkling

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC SKIN DAMAGE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPE; FACE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; LENTIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOMA; NECK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; WRINKLE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODDS RATIO; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84857444680     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2011.00946.x     Document Type: Article

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