Management rules to detect melanoma

Dermatology

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-60

  Lallas, Aimilios ^a   Zalaudek, Iris ^a,d   Apalla, Zoe ^e   Longo, Caterina ^a   Moscarella, Elvira ^a   Piana, Simonetta ^b   Reggiani, Camilla ^c   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Dermatology Unit   (Italy)

^b S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e Hospital of Skin and Venereal Diseases   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dermatoscopy; Dermoscopy; Diagnosis; Management; Melanoma; Nevi

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; MORPHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RISK; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; NEVUS; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN NODULE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84878018361     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: 14219832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346645     Document Type: Article

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