Dermoscopy: An aid to the detection of amelanotic cutaneous melanoma metastases

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1437-1444

  Jaimes, Natalia ^a   Halpern, Joshua A ^b   Puig, Susana ^c   Malvehy, Josep ^c   Myskowski, Patricia L ^a   Braun, Ralph P ^d   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMELANOTIC CUTANEOUS MELANOMA METASTASIS; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN METASTASIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84866386458     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2012.02438.x     Document Type: Article

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