In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy: A useful tool to select the location of a punch biopsy in a large, clinically indistinctive lesion

Case Reports in Dermatology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 129-132

  Peppelman, Malou ^a   Wolberink, Esther A W ^a   Koopman, Roland J J ^b   Van Erp, Piet E J ^a   Gerritsen, Marie Jeanne P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BERNHOVEN HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Diagnosis; Reflectance confocal microscopy; Squamous Cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY FLOW; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYOTHERAPY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; ELASTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; STRATUM CORNEUM;

EID: 84877936283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000351258     Document Type: Article

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