Tips and tricks in the dermoscopy of pigmented lesions

BMC Dermatology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kaminska Winciorek, Grazyna ^a   Spiewak, Radoslaw ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LETTER; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MOBILE PHONE; PIGMENT DISORDER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN SURFACE; STRATUM CORNEUM;

DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INK; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PIGMENTATION; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865287203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14715945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-5945-12-14     Document Type: Letter

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