Dermatoscopy for Melanoma and Pigmented Lesions

Dermatologic Clinics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 413-434

  Rao, Babar K ^a   Ahn, Christine S ^b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dermoscopy; Epiluminescence microscopy; Noninvasive imaging; Skin cancer detection; Skin imaging

Indexed keywords

3 COLOR TEST; 7 POINT CHECKLIST; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL HISTORY; MELANOMA; MENZIES METHOD; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENTED NEVUS; SKIN TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863881261     PISSN: 07338635     EISSN: 15580520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.det.2012.04.005     Document Type: Review

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