Accuracy of clinical skin tumour diagnosis in a dermatological setting

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 305-308

  Ahnlide, Ingela ^a   Bjellerup, Mats ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Malignant melanoma; Skin cancer; Skin cancer diagnosis; Skin surgery; Squa mous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BENIGN SKIN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN SURGERY; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHILD; DERMATOLOGY; DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876999692     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1560     Document Type: Article

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