The dermoscopic variability of pigment network in melanoma in situ

Melanoma Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-157

  Seidenari, Stefania ^a   Ferrari, Chiara ^a   Borsari, Stefania ^a   Bassoli, Sara ^a   Cesinaro, Anna Maria ^b   Giusti, Francesca ^a   Pellacani, Giovanni ^a   Ponti, Giovanni ^a   Zalaudek, Iris ^d   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atypical nevi; Dermoscopy; Melanoma; Network; Reticular grey blue regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA IN SITU; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; DERMATOLOGY; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PIGMENTATION; RISK; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84859771837     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: 14735636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0b013e328350fa28     Document Type: Article

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