Can noninvasive imaging tools potentially predict the risk of ulceration in invasive melanomas showing blue and black colors?

Melanoma Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-131

  Longo, Caterina ^a   Farnetani, Francesca ^c   Moscarella, Elvira ^a,c   De Pace, Barbara ^a,c   Ciardo, Silvana ^c   Ponti, Giovanni ^c   Piana, Simonetta ^b   Cesinaro, Anna M ^d   Cota, Carlo ^e   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^a   Rosendahl, Cliff ^f   Pellacani, Giovanni ^c   Zalaudek, Iris ^a,g  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Pathology Unit   (Italy)

^c Department of Dermatology ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

blue black rule; dermal nesting; dermatoscopy; dermoscopy; epidermal consumption; in vivo confocal microscopy; nodular melanoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; PIGMENTED NODULAR MELANOMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN COLOR; SKIN ULCER; SUPERFICIAL SPREADING MELANOMA;

EID: 84874949846     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: 14735636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0b013e32835d90b8     Document Type: Article

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