Dermoscopic features of basal cell carcinomas: Differences in appearance under non-polarized and polarized light

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 392-399

  Liebman, Tracey N ^a   Jaimes Lopez, Natalia ^a   Balagula, Yevgeniy ^a   Rabinovitz, Harold S ^b   Wang, Steven Q ^a   Dusza, Stephen W ^a   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b SKIN AND CANCER ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CAMERA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONPOLARIZED DERMOSCOPY; POLARIZED CONTACT DERMOSCOPY; POLARIZED NONCONTACT DERMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; TELANGIECTASIA; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ULCER;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84858078738     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.02205.x     Document Type: Article

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