Relationship between histological and computer based assessment of melanoma diameter and thickness in head & neck vs. trunk melanoma

Head and Neck Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Seidenari, S ^a   Fabiano, A ^a   Al Jalbout, S ^a   Bassoli, S ^a   Borsari, S ^a   Magnoni, C ^a   Tomasi, A ^a   Vinceti, M ^a   Ponti, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; TRUNK MELANOMA;

EID: 84875552598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17583284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Friedman RJ, Rigel DS, Kopf AW. Early detection of malignant melanoma: the role of physician examination and self-examination of the skin. CA Cancer J Clin 1985;35:130-51. (Pubitemid 15041543)
2. Rigel DS, Friedman RJ, Kopf AW, Polsky D. ABCDE: an evolving concept in the early detection of melanoma. Arch Dermatol 2005; 141: 1032-34. (Pubitemid 46165528)
3. Shaw HM, McCarthy WH. Small-diameter malignant melanoma: a common diagnosis in New South Wales, Australia. J Am Acad Dermatol 1992; 27: 679-82.
4. Gonzalez A, West AJ, Pitha JV, Taira JW. Small-diameter invasive melanomas: clinical and pathologic characteristics. J Cutan Pathol 1996; 23: 126-32.
5. Bono A, Bartoli C, Moglia D et al. Small melanomas: a clinical study of 270 consecutive cases of cutaneous melanoma. Melanoma Res 1999; 9: 583-86. (Pubitemid 30007777)
6. Gutkowicz-Krusin D, Elbaum M, Jacobs A et al. Precision of automatic measurements of pigmented skin lesion parameters with a MelaFind™ multispectral digital dermoscope. Melanoma Res 2000; 10: 563-70. (Pubitemid 32011979)
7. Fernandez EM, Helm KF. The diameter of melanomas. Dermatol Surg 2004; 30: 1219-22 (Pubitemid 39312247)
8. Helsing P, Loeb M. Small diameter melanoma: a follow-up of the Norwegian Melanoma Project. Br J Dermatol 2004; 151: 1081-83. (Pubitemid 39573899)
9. Abbasi NR, Yancovitz M, Gutkowicz-Krusin D et al. Utility of lesion diameter in the clinical diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma. Arch Dermatol 2008; 144: 469-74 (Pubitemid 351581103)
10. Grana C, Pellacani G, Seidenari S. Practical color calibration for dermoscopy,applied to a digital epiluminescence microscope. Skin Res Technol 2005; 11: 242-47 (Pubitemid 41614681)
11. Aldridge RB, Zanotto M, Ballerini L et al. Novice identification of melanoma: not quite as straightforward as the ABCDs. Acta Derm Venereol 2011; 91: 125-30.
12. Silverman MK, Golomb FM, Kopf AW et al. Verification of a formula for determination of preexcision surgical margins from fixed-tissue melanoma specimens. J Am Acad Dermatol 1992; 27: 214-19.
13. Gregory N, Mulvaney M, Pattison T et al. Shrinkage of skin excision specimens and downcoding. Arch Dermatol 2003; 139: 542-43. (Pubitemid 36427626)
14. Bono A, Tolomio E, Carbone A et al. Small nodular melanoma: the beginning of a life-threatening lesion. A clinical study on 11 cases. Tumori 2011; 97: 35-38.